Dustin Mcquay
Staff Software Engineer at SchoolAI
North Salt Lake, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolDustin Mcquay is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of full-stack experience and a strong backend focus, currently building at SchoolAI after leadership roles at Pluralsight and Booster. He combines hands-on engineering (PHP, Node.js, Java) with team building and mentoring, having led and grown small teams for over four years and served as Director of Engineering for APIs & Integrations. Dustin excels at turning legacy systems into reliable platforms—he’s shipped API-first architectures, Kafka data pipelines, and operational improvements across cloud environments (AWS, Rackspace, containers). An advocate for product thinking, he regularly pairs domain understanding with pragmatic engineering to drive business outcomes. Outside of work he’s an avid runner and road cyclist, and his open-source contributions include improving a Node.js Amazon Product Advertising client with testing, Promise support and automatic throttling—showing attention to quality and developer ergonomics.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, Information Systems at Brigham Young University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
testing10
javascript10
jestjs10
jtest10
jes10
nodejs9
api-design8
npm7
throttling6
es6-promise6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dmcquay/node-apac
Jun 2010 - May 2018
node-apac - Node.js client for the Amazon Product Advertising API, including support of Request Signatures
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 releases, 52 commits, 12 PRs in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dustin primarily contributed to the project by adding unit tests for the `RequestSignatureHelper` class, demonstrating a focus on code quality and testing. They also made changes to incorporate npm for installation, updated the AWS API version, and implemented a fix for a timestamp issue, indicating a role in maintaining and improving the library's functionality and compatibility. Furthermore, the user added a Promise interface and implemented automatic throttling to enhance the library's usability and performance.
amazon-product-advertising-apinodejs-client
dmcquay/katas
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 316 pushes, 62 branches in 1 year 2 months
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