Dustin Wilcock
About Dustin Wilcock
Dustin Wilcock is a Software Engineer currently working at Clozd in the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area since 2022. He has extensive experience in software engineering, having previously held positions at companies such as Imagine Learning, IBM, and LexisNexis.
Work at Clozd
Dustin Wilcock has been employed as a Software Engineer at Clozd since 2022. In this role, he leads the architecture working group, focusing on transitioning the platform to an event-driven microservice architecture. He contributes to DevOps improvements by emulating cloud-native systems for local development and testing. Additionally, he utilizes Pulumi scripts for infrastructure management. His work also involves synchronizing relational data into Elasticsearch, facilitating fast and flexible queries and full-text search capabilities. Dustin collaborates with integration partners to implement and consume public APIs, enhancing the functionality of Clozd's offerings.
Previous Experience in Software Engineering
Dustin Wilcock has extensive experience in software engineering, having worked at several notable organizations. He served as a Senior Software Engineer at Imagine Learning from 2005 to 2016, where he contributed for 11 years. Following that, he held the position of Principal Software Engineer at the same company from 2017 to 2022. Earlier in his career, he worked at LexisNexis (PeopleWise) as a Senior Software Engineer from 2000 to 2005 and at IBM (EduQuest) as a Software Engineer for one year from 1995 to 1996. This diverse background has equipped him with a wide range of skills and expertise in software development.
Teaching Experience
Dustin Wilcock has experience in academia as an Online Adjunct Instructor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University - Idaho. He held this position from 2021 to 2023, teaching for two years. This role allowed him to share his knowledge and experience in software engineering with students, contributing to their education in the field of computer science.
Education and Expertise
Dustin Wilcock earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University, where he studied from 1991 to 1996. His educational background has provided him with a solid foundation in computer science principles and practices, which he has applied throughout his extensive career in software engineering and development.