Summary
Dustin Schultz is a Principal Software Engineer with over 13 years of hands-on experience and 18+ years developing software, currently shaping architecture and technical direction for lending platforms at SoFi. He specializes in Java, Spring Boot, microservices and cloud-native distributed systems on AWS, and has led large-scale modernizations that unlocked new business capabilities in underwriting, servicing, and collections. A pragmatic individual contributor and mentor, Dustin partners across dozens of teams to turn monoliths into resilient, testable platforms while introducing new paradigms and tools. He’s also a prolific educator and communicator—authoring multiple Pluralsight courses and writing for InfoQ—bringing an unusual blend of deep technical craft and clear teaching. Based in Salt Lake City, he’s known for seeking the right tool for the job and for quietly delivering high-impact performance and reliability improvements across complex systems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
B.S., Computer Science, 4.0, B.S., Computer Science, 4.0 at Southern Utah University
Spanish