Dustin Zeisler
Principal Software Engineer at Files.com
Bonners Ferry, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Zeisler is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-throughput, reliable distributed systems and developer tooling. He currently architects and ships core infrastructure at Files.com, driving an enterprise-scale managed file transfer platform that moves terabytes daily and powers 500k+ distributed jobs while bridging on-prem systems to cloud providers without firewall changes. Proficient in Go and Ruby, Dustin has designed transfer cores, cross-platform agents, CLIs, SDKs, and integration frameworks that accelerate partner onboarding and multi-GB data flows. His open-source contributions include backend work on the Graphiti API, enhancing schema visibility and flexible filtering—showing a knack for elegant API DSL and resource design. Past roles span fintech, edtech, and healthcare where he built regulatory decision engines and data models that handled hundreds of millions in loans and tens of billions in education funds. Based in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, he blends hands-on coding with mentoring and product-aligned architecture to turn complex requirements into operational systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Portland Code SchoolComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Portland Community College
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
apidoc10
rails10
schema-design10
ruby10
api10
filter10
filtering10
wpgraphql9
json-api9
api-server9
wordpress-graphql9
ruby-on-rails9
graphql9
sql-server6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
graphiti-api/graphiti
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
Stylish Graph APIs
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 22 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Graphiti API project, focusing on features related to attribute and filter handling within the resource schema. They implemented options for controlling schema visibility and allowing null values in filters. The commits involved modifications to the DSL, resource configuration, and filtering logic to support these features. The user's work directly impacts how the API's schema is defined and how data is filtered.
ruby-on-railsapigraphitirailsruby
zeisler/active_mocker
Mar 2014 - Sep 2019
Generate mocks from ActiveRecord models for unit tests that run fast because they don’t need to load Rails or a database.
Contributions:932 commits, 119 PRs, 302 pushes in 5 years 6 months
railsrubyunitactiverecord-modelsmocks
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