Dustin Schau
Head Of API Client at Postman
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Schau is a product and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building developer-facing products and high-performing teams from early-stage growth through acquisition. Currently VP of Product & Engineering at Adapt, he previously led Postman's API client and scaled Gatsby from an early engineer to VP of Product & Engineering, helping grow revenue from $40K to $5M ARR and shepherding an acquisition into Netlify. He combines hands-on front-end expertise—contributing to widely used open-source projects like Gatsby and React docs—with strategic product leadership that launches differentiated offerings such as Netlify Connect. Known for shipping pragmatic developer experiences, he still writes code periodically to improve tooling, testing, and build workflows. Based in San Francisco, Dustin blends startup grit with enterprise delivery, often focusing on developer DX, performance, and automation behind the scenes.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Creighton University
English
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
jes10
css10
jestjs10
jtest10
html10
react10
documentation10
gatsby10
build-script9
refactor9
props9
prop9
refactoring9
monorepo9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gatsbyjs/gatsby
Jul 2017 - Nov 2022
The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 378 commits, 1100 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily contributed to the `gatsby-remark-images` plugin, fixing issues related to path prefixes for responsive images. They added tests to this plugin, including unit tests and snapshots, and refactored and styled the code. Additionally, the user added tests for various plugins in the repository, focusing on ensuring correct functionality and addressing potential bugs related to URLs and window issues.
gatsbyreactweb-appfastestcompiler
improving-minnesota/react-redux-timesheet
May 2018 - May 2018
The timesheet project for the react-redux workshop
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 13 PRs, 14 pushes in 7 days
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily contributed to the project by setting up and configuring the project environment, including build scripts and monorepo structure. They added a validation script and modified the build process. They also refactored the code to use `setState` instead of direct state mutation, indicating a focus on component lifecycle management within the React application. Furthermore, the user made code style improvements by running Prettier on the codebase.
reactworkshopreact-reduxreduxtimesheet
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