Dustin Shimono
Principal Software Engineer at Vertex Inc.
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Shimono is a Principal Software Engineer based in Charleston, SC, with two decades of hands-on experience designing cloud-native, distributed systems and microservice architectures. He excels at leading cross-functional platform teams as an individual contributor, architecting scalable, testable systems and re-platforming monolithic stacks into resilient, modular services using Java, Kotlin, Go and Spring Boot. Known for creating cultures of quality, he champions TDD/BDD, CI/CD and DevSecOps practices to reduce defects and improve delivery velocity. Dustin pairs deep JVM expertise with full-stack skills and a current curiosity in generative AI, Kotlin Multiplatform and cross-platform development to expand product capabilities. His background spans enterprise finance and travel security domains, where he has repeatedly translated business objectives into pragmatic architectural roadmaps. Colleagues rely on him for technical mentorship, pragmatic standards-setting, and turning legacy complexity into maintainable, high-performance platforms.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Valparaiso University
Github Skills (77)
testng10
testing10
hexagonal-architecture10
security10
jooq10
automation10
resilience4j10
ports-and-adapters10
microservices10
load-testing10
webdriver10
r2dbc10
data-loss-prevention10
bdd10
lambda10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dustinsand/pre-commit-jvm
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
A collection of git hooks for the JVM to be used with the pre-commit framework.
Contributions:10 releases, 3 reviews, 5 commits in 1 year 9 months
git-hookspre-commitjava-bytecodejvmrefactoring
dustinsand/hex-arch-kotlin-spring-boot
Apr 2019 - May 2022
Reference JVM multi module project for a reactive micro service and lambda using a hexagonal architecture, DDD, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Lambda, Gradle.
Contributions:15 commits, 10 PRs, 101 pushes in 3 years 1 month
gradlemodularitymicronautmulti-module-projecthexagonal-architecture
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