Dustin Shahidehpour is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently shaping mobile architecture at Meta from Denver. He specializes in iOS and React Native development with a strong emphasis on reliability—contributing QA, test automation, performance optimizations, and API refinements to high-profile open-source projects like Facebook’s iOS SDK, Yoga, and React Native. Dustin brings full-stack experience from web-scale engineering roles at Orbitz and GPU research at Illinois Tech, pairing low-level performance work with pragmatic product-focused engineering. Unusually for an engineer, he also has a formal background in music performance (percussion), a discipline that informs his collaborative and detail-oriented approach to complex systems.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music Performance, Percussion, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music Performance, Percussion at Lawrence University
CS, Computer Science, CS, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Contributions:77 commits, 54 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily focused on adding typing to the example project and cleaning up the code within the `facebook/componentkit` repository, which is a view framework for iOS. The changes involve modifications to several files related to the Wilde Guess example app, including adding type hints and improvements to model controllers, context, and UI components. The contributions demonstrate the user's focus on improving code maintainability and readability within the context of an iOS framework.
Yoga is an embeddable layout engine targeting web standards.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:58 commits, 12 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily contributed to the UIKit and CSSLayout components of the project. Their work involved adding tests, optimizing performance, and refactoring the code to improve maintainability. They also addressed bugs related to view hierarchy and layout calculations. Additionally, the user added a new sizing API and made improvements to the existing API.
followlayoutandroidupdatescross-platform
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