Dustin Van Tate Testa

Skills

Programming since 2011

C++ & C since 2011: GDB, valgrind, pthreads, GMP, libefence, cmake, openmp, Qt, POSIX, etc.
TypeScript & JavaScript since 2014: Node, TypeScript, WebGL, threejs, express, WebAssembly, React, echarts, etc.
Python since 2013: Flask, Pandas, PIP, multiprocessing, textblob, etc.
HTML, CSS, JS: Since 2010 I've created 15+ websites
Limited others: Experiments with functional languages like Haskell as well as assembly langauges like WebAssembly and MIPS

Using Arch Linux as primary OS since 2015
Maintaining Linux servers since 2016
Technical Skills: Linux, BASH, AWS, REST, SQL, Web Scraping, RSS, LaTeX
Software: Excel, Wings3D, SketchUp, OBS, git, bash, vim, screen, kdenlive, systemd
Languages: English, Spanish (conversational), Danish (literate)
Hobbies: Aquaculture (planted tanks), CAD/CG, Video Editing, Metal Casting, Investing (options, stocks, etfs)

Formal Experience

Working to improve Linux support for core products.
Skills used: C, C++, Linux, MSVC, BASH, RHEL, linux file systems, public key cryptography, etc.

Worked multiple jobs in various industries using while gaining new skills and visiting family
Skills used: Software Engineering, Consulting, Full-stack Development, System Administration
Languages: TypeScript, C, C++, Python, BASH, Haskell, AWS, SQL
New technologies learned: Webpack, Various ORM libraries, Onesignal, Vue, etc.
Achievements: Upwork's "Rising talent" and "Top Rated" badges

Hired through freelancing site Upwork.com
Helped refactor a large codebase spanning 5 years of development
Worked primarily on the 3D editor for westatix.com
Technologies used: JavaScript, WebGL, Webassembly, jQuery, C/C++, Linux, Docker, Git, Threejs, MVC, etc.

Reached out to by CEO with a name, a logo, and a dream to democratize algorithmic trading
Led development of company's software products
Chose to create a distributed language system to power the company's product
Pitched Company at TechCrunch 2019 where we were finalists
Spent summer of 2019 building out product at the Harvard Innovation Lab
Skills used: Startups, Marketing, PM, SWE, AWS, MySQL, Node.js, React Native, Python, React.js, Linux, REST, investing, NLP, AI, etc.

Active monitor (volunteer) at CBCM (2022 - present)
Programming Lead For IIT NASA Robotic Mining Competition Team (2019 - 2020)
IIT Computer Science Teaching Assistant (2019)
Macon-Bibb Board of Education Technology Apprenticeship (2016 - 2018)
Programming Lead for Bibb County FRC Team 4941 (2014 - 2018)
Councellor at Mercer Creative Computer Camps (2016 - 2018)
Small Business Owner, Elemental Designs (2012 - 2014)
- Re-cast scrap metal from old electronics into jewelry
- Several thousand dollars in gross revenue
- Recognized by Macon Telegraph as Youngest seller in Macon Arts Gallery

Personal Projects

Discord chatbot created for video game communities
Features a language-based rule-engine, web-portal, rss-feed forwarding, game integrations, etc.
Peak of 200k users, but now reduced to 130k such as to reduce the load on my server
Created using Node.js 2017-2019, but maintained to present GitHub.com/dvtate/Corki
Website: corki.js.org

A language with a traditional syntax that focuses on providing an improved async experience
Compiler+VM written in C++ in 2020: GitHub.com/dvtate/SCL
Implementation includes: Tracing Garbage Collector, Stack-based VM, event-loop, shift-reduce parser, etc.

Education

Chicago, Illinois | Computer Science | 2018-2021*

Macon, Georgia | Foreign Language Pathway | 2014 - 2018