Dustin Popp
Software Engineer at Base Power Company
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDustin Popp is a versatile backend engineer and technical leader based in Austin with a decade of software experience and seven-plus years focused on cloud APIs, SDKs, and developer tooling. At IBM he led teams and built automation that cut SDK/CLI development time by over 90%, created the widely used OpenAPI Validator, and shaped IBM’s public API handbook and governance. He’s comfortable both inventing developer-facing automation and diving into low-level problems—evidenced by contributions to Watson SDKs improving audio WAV handling and by shipping end-to-end SDK generation systems. Now at Base Power Company, he continues to bridge product and engineering, prioritizing developer experience and pragmatic, well-documented APIs. Trained originally in nuclear engineering, Dustin brings discipline from scientific software to large-scale cloud systems and a habit of rapidly learning new domains.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Nuclear Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Nuclear Engineering at University of Florida
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Github Skills (12)
speech-to-text10
text-to-speech10
axios9
nodejs9
mochajs6
ibm-watson6
fiddler6
watson-conversation6
javascript6
vue6
ibm-cloud6
react6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021
:comet: Node.js library to access IBM Watson services.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 25 reviews, 564 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dustin's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the text-to-speech functionality of the project. The commits included implementing features to repair WAV headers, exposing functions to handle WAV headers, and updating the README and examples to reflect those changes. These improvements demonstrate a focus on improving the audio processing capabilities of the system.
cometvisual-recognitionwatsonjavascriptpersonality-insights
dpopp07/dotfiles
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
Various files I use for my development environment.
Contributions:18 PRs, 24 pushes, 22 branches in 5 years 1 month
vimbashneovimdevelopment-environmentasdf
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