Dusty Jones
CTO at TrueAbility
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDusty Jones is a pragmatic CTO and co-founder with 14+ years of experience building cloud-native, performance-based testing platforms used by customers like Google, Chef, and SUSE. He architected TrueAbility’s flagship system that delivers real-server, real-world technical certification at scale and pairs hands-on engineering with product and business strategy. A seasoned rubyist and contributor to the fog cloud library, Dusty has deep experience integrating cloud provider APIs and building resilient backend services. Based in Austin, he blends full-stack fluency (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Linux, cloud) with proven people leadership across startups and large ops teams. An MSTC-trained technologist with a mechanical engineering background, he often applies systems thinking from hardware and manufacturing to software reliability and operational efficiency.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSTC Technology Commercialization, MSTC Technology Commercialization at Texas McCombs School of BusinessBSME Mechanical Engineering, BSME Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (10)
rackspace10
api10
cloud-computing10
apidoc10
ruby10
testing9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fog/fog
Nov 2012 - Nov 2015
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 3 years
Contributions summary:Dusty primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the `fog/fog` repository, focusing on the Rackspace cloud services integration. Their work involved adding support for features like `access_control_allow_origin` and `origin` headers for Rackspace storage files, which included implementing the necessary methods and attributes. This work required modifying the models and requests related to file operations, demonstrating proficiency in cloud service interaction. Additionally, they integrated support for a `get_vnc_console` request for compute instances, improving the functionality of the Rackspace compute provider.
cloud-servicesrubygemstest-kitchenfogruby
dustacio/redis-dns-server
Dec 2014 - Nov 2019
Redis backed DNS Server written in GO
Contributions:44 commits, 8 PRs, 33 pushes in 4 years 11 months
golangredisdnsdns-serverbacked
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