I'm Director of Core Engineering at Weebly in NYC. My focus is Backend Engineering, specifically distributed systems and large infrastructure projects.
I enjoy being a part of small teams which grow over time, allowing me to broaden my experiences while honing in on specific roles.
If you'd like to get in touch, email me at hello@dustindoiron.com.
I enjoy being a part of small teams which grow over time, allowing me to broaden my experiences while honing in on specific roles.
If you'd like to get in touch, email me at hello@dustindoiron.com.
Weebly, 2011 to 2017
I started at Weebly in late 2011 as a Senior Software Engineer, focusing on anti-spam and anti-fraud projects. During this time, I drastically reduced resources utilized by spammers, and reduced fraudulent transactions. I introduced decision systems based on user behavior and pattern analysis. These systems are tied into every User action taken on Weebly today, even (realtime) website traffic analysis.
I found a niche in infrastructure and distributed systems, partnering with our operations team to bring RabbitMQ and a compute tier, dedicated to distributed computing, to our stack.
In late 2012 scaling issues required us to move published sites away from a legacy system, and I introduced a Memcached publishing system with a persistent database backed solution. If you're reading this, you're using that system now, as are all 40+ million users of Weebly.
My role grew in 2013 into helping build the team in a more direct way, with hiring and recruiting roles, including university trips and conferences.
In early 2014 I took a more formal role in technical leadership as Director of Core Engineering, helping to build the team of 90 engineers that we have today.
In 2015 I moved to NYC to help start our east coast engineering team, and launch Promote from the ground up on brand new infrastructure, which is now the baseline for all new services at Weebly.
I found a niche in infrastructure and distributed systems, partnering with our operations team to bring RabbitMQ and a compute tier, dedicated to distributed computing, to our stack.
In late 2012 scaling issues required us to move published sites away from a legacy system, and I introduced a Memcached publishing system with a persistent database backed solution. If you're reading this, you're using that system now, as are all 40+ million users of Weebly.
My role grew in 2013 into helping build the team in a more direct way, with hiring and recruiting roles, including university trips and conferences.
In early 2014 I took a more formal role in technical leadership as Director of Core Engineering, helping to build the team of 90 engineers that we have today.
In 2015 I moved to NYC to help start our east coast engineering team, and launch Promote from the ground up on brand new infrastructure, which is now the baseline for all new services at Weebly.
myYearbook (MeetMe), 2007-2011
I started at myYearbook in 2007 as a Quality Assurance Engineer, which really gave me an interesting perspective on software engineering. While there, I signed off on nearly every major product we built, quickly becoming a leading member of the team.
In 2009 I moved to Manager of Product Quality, managing a small team of QA Engineers. As my first management role, this really taught me the rights and wrongs of building a team.
Eventually I embraced a role in software development, and in early 2010 I moved onto the development team. I focused on anti-spam systems for myYearbook, mostly managing systems to identify fake accounts and illicit messages.
In 2011 myYearbook was purchased by Quepasa, eventually becoming MeetMe.
In 2009 I moved to Manager of Product Quality, managing a small team of QA Engineers. As my first management role, this really taught me the rights and wrongs of building a team.
Eventually I embraced a role in software development, and in early 2010 I moved onto the development team. I focused on anti-spam systems for myYearbook, mostly managing systems to identify fake accounts and illicit messages.
In 2011 myYearbook was purchased by Quepasa, eventually becoming MeetMe.
And personally...
My real passion is travel -- I've visited over a dozen countries in the last two years, and can't wait to visit more. This meshes well with my love of photography; I took the photo to the left in London in 2014. I love flying, I'm a huge #avgeek.
I'm also into cars. I've had more cars than I should probably admit. Unfortunately, living in NYC makes it difficult to keep this passion alive. Fortunately, though, I'm probably saving a ton of money (lol).
I'm also into cars. I've had more cars than I should probably admit. Unfortunately, living in NYC makes it difficult to keep this passion alive. Fortunately, though, I'm probably saving a ton of money (lol).