Summary
Dustin Van Tate Testa is a versatile software engineer with a decade of experience building systems-level and web applications, currently improving Linux-focused products at an information security company. A language and WASM enthusiast, he’s authored several programming languages and VMs (including a Haskell-to-WASM compiler and a bytecode VM) and has led DSL design and distributed language work for a trading startup. Comfortable across C/C++, TypeScript, Python and tooling for packaging, kernel integrations and build systems, he combines deep low-level skills with full-stack experience from freelance and startup projects. Outside of code he runs a backyard foundry jewelry business, built an attic chemistry and electronics lab, and applies disciplined research to algorithmic trading—revealing a maker mindset that fuels his engineering creativity.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computervidenskab, Bachelor's degree, Computervidenskab at Illinois Institute of Technology
Business, Business at Harvard Innovation Labs
Software Engineering and Math, Software Engineering and Math at Georgia Governor's Honors Program
Spanish, 3.9 GPA (top 5%), Spanish, 3.9 GPA (top 5%) at Howard High School
Spanish, Danish, English