Summary
Dustin Vannoy is a Lead Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks with a 17-year track record of turning analytics and big data challenges into production value through cloud-native architectures, streaming pipelines, and data lake/warehouse transformations. He blends hands-on engineering in Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Python, Scala, Azure and AWS with advisory leadership—helping organizations modernize data platforms and transition workloads to scalable, streaming-first designs. A longtime community builder, he co-founded Data Engineering San Diego, produces tutorials on YouTube, and regularly speaks at user groups and conferences to lower the barrier for new data engineers. His background spans senior roles at Pluralsight, Intuit and consulting engagements, giving him experience across product, platform and organizational strategy. Passionate about increasing diversity in tech, he focuses on mentorship and practical learning pathways in the San Diego / Tijuana region. One less obvious strength: he combines deep platform expertise with public-facing teaching, meaning his architectures are informed by what teams can actually adopt and operate.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science/Systems, BS Computer Science/Systems at Taylor University