Dustin Diaz

Engineering Leader · 3× Founder · AI Native

dustin@dustindiaz.comLos Angeles, CA

Product engineer at heart, engineering leader by trade. Twenty years shipping software at scale — from Google and Twitter to three companies of my own. I build the cultures that deliver.

Experience
Now
Altium
Senior Director of Engineering
  • Shipped AI-native product capabilities end-to-end — natural language BOM search, MCP platform integrations, and Claude-powered engineering workflows — /folio
  • Leading AI-native cloud PLM platform following strategic acquisition of Duro Labs
  • Driving post-acquisition integration with Altium 365 and broader electronics design ecosystem
Platform EngineeringM&A IntegrationAI Strategy
'23
Duro Labs
VP of Engineering
  • Led engineering to successful exit — acquired by multi-billion dollar global leader in electronics design
  • Scaled team 400%, reduced deploy cadence from 1.2/month to 1.0/day in first six months
  • Implemented SOC 2 and CMMC compliance across AWS GovCloud and GCP, driving 25% increase in enterprise revenue
  • Managed $3M+ annual engineering budget across 25 distributed developers and five teams
Exit StrategyScaling TeamsComplianceAI-Native
'22
Route
Director of Engineering, Mobile & Consumer
  • Reduced build times 65% and deployment time from 4 hours to 20 minutes via unified CI/CD
  • Led performance reviews and calibration for 50 engineers; grew ICs to leads, leads to managers
Developer ProductivityCI/CDLeadership Development
'21
It's Good / Lightspeed
VP of Engineering / Director of Engineering
  • Built platform from 0 to 1 — architecture, APIs, data warehousing — shipping production MVP
  • Managed two distributed teams of 15 engineers with end-to-end hiring
0-to-1ArchitectureHiring
'15
Agent
Cofounder, CTO & CEO
  • AI-powered talent marketplace: 75K users, 3K enterprise clients
  • Built ML-powered matching and image recognition processing 10M+ daily events
  • Led engineering teams of 40+ across mobile, platform, and data
EntrepreneurshipAI/MLMarketplace
'14
Mix
Principal Engineer & Cofounder
  • Cofounded with Garrett Camp (founder of Uber) — content discovery platform with 30K+ creators
FullstackEntrepreneurship
'13
Change.org
Chief Frontend Architect
  • Frontend strategist at 500-person company serving 50M global users
  • Migrated from Rails monolith to Node.js SPA; reduced rendering to sub-150ms
ArchitecturePerformance
'11
Medium
Founding Engineer
Founding TeamNode.js
'09
Twitter
Frontend Tech Lead
  • Employee #30 and company's first frontend engineer
  • Built the widget platform, tweet and follow buttons; led the 2010 redesign
  • Embeddable timeline widgets accounted for 30% of all search traffic
Early StagePlatformRedesign
'07
Google
Design Engineer & Educator
  • Gmail UX prototyping — reduced iteration cycles by 40%
  • Created Google's most-attended engineering education program, teaching 1,000+ engineers
UX EngineeringEducation
'05
Yahoo
Frontend Engineer
YUIDeveloper Advocacy
Education & Writing
CSU, SacramentoBA Spanish, Minor Cultural Anthropology
University
Executive CoachingSuccess by Design
Leadership
Pro JavaScript Design PatternsPublished by Apress
Book
This is Strobist InfoPublished by Pearson
Book
Culture

Culture ships

An engineering team's culture is its most durable product. Get the culture right — the rituals, the standards, the taste — and great software follows. I've scaled teams from 2 to 100, and this has always been true.

Etcetera

Ranked 13th nationally in the 800m. Boston Qualifier. 2:36 Masters Marathoner.

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