Hi! I'm Dustin.

My work

I love building. I started my career as a front-end engineer and have grown into executive positions and a leader of organizations. I build great products, great teams, and great leaders.

• Adapt

  VP of Product & Engineering, 2026-Present

  I lead Product & Engineering at Adapt, a seed-stage startup building the AI-native operating system for teams. Adapt connects to the tools your team already uses and gives you a single interface to ask questions, take action, and automate workflows across all of them.

  • Building and leading the Product & Engineering teams from the ground up at seed stage
  • Shaping the product vision and roadmap for an AI-native platform used by teams to automate work across their entire tool stack
  • Writing code and setting the technical and cultural bar for the engineering organization

• Postman

  Head of API Client, 2023-2026

  I led the API Client team at Postman—one of the world's most loved developer tools, used by millions of developers daily. We owned the core request-sending engine across all protocols (REST, gRPC, WebSockets, GraphQL, MQTT, AI models, and MCP) and modernized the Postman platform for both humans and AI agents.

  • Modernized and innovated on the core API client. Closed the top upvoted issues representing dozens of years of cumulative feature requests long demanded by users, making the core client simpler, faster, and more feature rich (HTTP/2 support, prompting for variables, SOCKS5 Proxy and many more)
  • Multi-protocol collection architecture. Shipped a unified execution layer that standardized request sending across all protocols, accelerating new protocol development and expanding platform capabilities (collection runner, monitors, and mocks) to the full protocol suite
  • Git-native filesystem. Shipped a radically new Postman in a contained manner (git-native filesystem) that de-risked and validated next-generation product capabilities including first-class git integration, native filesystem support, and the v3 specification—the foundation for the next decade of API development by teams of both humans and AI agents
  • New protocols and platform breadth. Launched AI request and MCP request from zero to thousands of users, and shipped collection runner and CLI support for gRPC and GraphQL
  • Built a top-tier global team. Led, cultivated, and grew a first-class, product-minded engineering team with hubs in the SF Bay Area and Bangalore, India

• Netlify

  Senior Director, Engineering, 2023

  I helped integrate the Gatsby team into the Netlify organization as part of the acquisition. Additionally, I helped launch the general availability launch of Netlify Connect, which was the primary reason that Gatsby was acquired.

  • Launched Netlify Connect, the graduation and general availability launch of Valhalla (created at Gatsby, Inc.)
  • Integrated the Gatsby team into Netlify, and contributed to consolidation of Gatsby Cloud into Netlify

• Gatsby

  Co-founder, VP of Product & Engineering, 2018-2023

  I joined Gatsby in 2018 as employee #11 as an engineer on the open-source team. I eventually ended up leading a team of 25+ containing all of Product, Engineering, and Design and we grew our revenue from 40K to over 5M and were successfully acquired by Netlify in 2023. I received an honorary co-founder title to celebrate my impact on Gatsby's success by the board and the two co-founders of Gatsby

  • Created the SaaS product Gatsby Cloud which grew customer base from zero to over 1K+ paid customers (100 enterprise!) and over 5M ARR
  • Shipped four major releases of the Gatsby open-source web framework, culminating in one of the most popular open-source projects of all time (50k+ GitHub stars) that as of 2023 powers 0.3% of the web
  • Co-created Valhalla (along with Abhi Aiyer, Ward Peeters, and Shane Thomas), which was Gatsby's GraphQL data layer made framework agnostic and was the central product that led to Gatsby's acquisition by Netlify

• Object Partners

  Principal Consultant, 2016-2018

  Built some fun projects for some amazing companies. Helped enterprises modernize their web stack, and embrace modern technologies like React and Node.js.

  • Built an Ionic hybrid mobile application for truck drivers used by over 10K weekly users
  • Built a real-time chat platform backed by Firebase and web components (Polymer).
  • Modernized frontend platform for 1000+ person company and standardized on React and Redux

• Union Pacific

  Senior Application Developer, 2013-2016

  Started my career as a frontend focused application developer, ended up building a component library and application generator.

  • Built a standardized frontend toolkit and application generator for internal Angular.js applications
  • Contributed and maintained dozens of Angular.js components, used by millions of users and thousands of internal developers
  • Built full-stack web applications with SpringMVC and jQuery Mobile used by thousands of employees