Dustin Nielsen
Software Development Manager at Government of Alberta
City of Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Nielsen is a Software Development Manager with 11 years of hands-on and leadership experience building full-stack products and growing engineering teams across government, finance, and oil-sector clients. He has a track record of turning early-stage efforts into widely adopted products—scaling a Government of Alberta product from 10 teams to 80+ teams while expanding and shifting his team’s delivery model from Scrum to Kanban. Equally comfortable in code and coordination, he’s led architecture efforts (Postgres, Python, React, C#, MSSQL), mentored and promoted numerous developers, and driven cost-saving technical solutions. Dustin pairs a pragmatic, user-focused approach to UI and product design with a mentor’s commitment to team growth and operational efficiency. Based in Spruce Grove, Alberta, he brings a mix of enterprise and hands-on freelance experience that helps translate stakeholder needs into maintainable, impactful software.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at University of Regina
Github Skills (56)
mvc-framework10
form-builder10
validation10
nette10
php10
rapid-development10
vue10
rest-api10
svelte10
rapid10
react10
angular10
ui-components9
cakephp9
user-interface9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GovAlta/ui-components-cypress-automation
Jul 2024 - Dec 2024
This repository is intended to hold all Cypress Automation tests for the ui-components project
Contributions:9 PRs, 34 pushes, 14 branches in 4 months
GovAlta/ui-components-react-sandbox
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
This repository is intended to be used as a sandbox environment for testing issues in.
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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