Dustin Christy

Timnath, CO • dev@dustinchristy.com • LinkedIn

Skills

Languages

Java, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, Go, Python

Technologies

Spring Boot, Mockito, Terraform, Kafka, Maven, Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes, Jira, Git

Databases

Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, Firestore

Cloud / DevOps

GCP, AWS, Jenkins, Consul, Vault, Portainer, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, Splunk, CircleCI

AI Tools

Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, Gemini Canvas

Education

BS Computer Science, Missouri State University

Experience

Senior Staff Backend Engineer

Achieve • Remote
Aug 2021 – Present
  • Led a scrum team through product discovery and deployment of a financial services aggregation platform, enabling sales teams to cross-sell multiple products through a centralized system.
  • Build and maintain a loan offer engine that processes and provides loan offers to over 5,000 applicants daily.
  • Develop applications leveraging GCP technologies — Cloud Run, Firestore, Kubernetes, PubSub, Cloud SQL — that collectively process hundreds of millions of requests per day.
  • Work daily with product, engineering, and sales leaders to design and document services and applications.
  • Presented an AI Tech Talk to over 100 attendees outlining the advantages of tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot.

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Ad Action Interactive • Remote
Aug 2020 – Aug 2021
  • Built public-facing web applications with small teams of 3–4 developers.
  • Developed microservices and REST APIs using Spring Boot 2+.
  • Created an Auth Service generating signed JWTs with Spring Security, OAuth2, and Social Login flows.
  • Built single-page applications using Vue.js and Vuetify.
  • Led design and implementation strategies across multiple areas of business.

Software Engineer II

Enterprise Holdings • Remote
Oct 2017 – Aug 2020
  • Designed and developed microservices using Java and Spring Boot following RESTful and OpenAPI 3.0 standards.
  • Developed front-end applications with AngularJS and Angular 6–8.
  • Upgraded multiple Spring 3–4 applications to Spring Boot, converting from XML to Java-based configurations.
  • Performed application deployments in AWS, Linux, and Unix environments using Jenkins.
  • Led small teams of 3–4 developers from project planning through release.

Software Engineer I

Enterprise Holdings • St. Louis, MO
Jun 2014 – Oct 2017
  • Implemented process improvements introducing agile methodologies — stand-ups, sprint retrospectives, and story sizing.
  • Created a support page to track satellite radio subscriptions using AngularJS.