Dustin Specker
Software Engineer at Teleport
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolDustin Specker is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems, currently contributing at Teleport. He has led teams and projects across Kubernetes, Go, Helm, and Azure DevOps—most recently serving as Lead Engineer for Microsoft's Azure Operators Nexus where he championed OpenTelemetry and built an end-to-end testing framework that onboarded 10+ teams. Dustin’s background spans DevOps and platform work (EKS cost reductions of 70%+, OPA/Gatekeeper policy architecture, Argo workflows) as well as front-end real-time apps earlier in his career, giving him a rare full-stack-to-infrastructure perspective. He’s practiced hands-on mentoring, breaking down complex features for mixed-experience teams while owning CI/CD and integration testing at scale. A Nuclear Engineering graduate, Dustin brings methodical, systems-thinking rigor to software problems and a proven knack for turning lengthy manual validation into automated, repeatable pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Nuclear Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Nuclear Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
hpa10
scheduling10
k8s10
operator10
mesos10
modular10
database-access10
audit10
prettier-eslint10
system-generator10
angularjs10
teleport10
argo-workflows10
package-manager10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dustinspecker/dustinspecker.com
Aug 2016 - Jul 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 179 pushes, 32 branches in 7 years 11 months
dustinspecker/dotfiles
Nov 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:93 commits, 1 PR, 56 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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