Howdy! My name is Dustin. I'm a Senior Design Technologist and Lead Documentation Engineer working on the Design System at Indeed where we like to say - We help people get jobs! Prior to moving into design systems full time, I was a Drupalist working on Very Large Websites™ for media brands and universities you've definitely heard of. Drupalists were using design systems before they were cool - we just called them Style Tiles.
Before realizing HTML and CSS could pay the bills, I was an aspiring filmmaker who enjoyed the more technical aspects of audio / video editing and visual effects. I was lucky enough to work with amazingly talented folks like the Duplass Brothers, and had a truly great time building suspense with music and gore on small budget horror films.
I'm a lifelong cyclist who has recently rediscovered riding on dirt. I've got a dentist quality mountain bike and a gravel bike that isn't quite as fancy, but they both make me feel like I have wings.
I used to have a pretty stacked garage gym where my friends and I lifted heavy things and put them back down again. Mostly powerlifting with some strongman aspirations and a dash of HIIT on the weekends to work the beach muscles. After moving back to the Boston area, I look forward to rebuilding the iron paradise.
I like to tinker with Arduino adjacent electronics and 3d printers. When public gatherings were more common, I helped run dorkbot Austin for several years and had a part in getting the nerd party SXSW Create off the ground.
I've gone back and forth a few times, but now I'm back in Boston, for good. I'll always miss my home state of Texas, and eating all of the tacos I can get my hands on. New England is home now, and I'm eating all of the seafood and meatball subs I can get my hands on. One of these days, I'm going to buy some land in Vermont or New Mexico with my closest friends and enjoy a pastoral lifestyle with high speed internet.
New England has the best sandwiches, but the Southwest has the best tortilla based foods.