# Dustin Polk

> Senior Software Engineer at Octo/IBM

Location: Berryville, Virginia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dustinpolk

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Octo, an IBM Company
Jan 2024 – Present | Reston, Virginia, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2024 – Present | Reston, Virginia, United States

### Principal Associate Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | McLean, Virginia, United States
• Designed serverless API using Python, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Route 53, and DynamoDB that serves as the central feature metadata store for Capital One’s ML Enterprise Feature Platform.
• Used AWS Lambda, SQS, and Athena to design an end-to-end serverless solution that effectively processes billions of daily customer data rows.  This highly scalable solution upserts only the differences compared to the existing dataset, resulting in significant cost and resource savings.
• Built serverless solution for allowing very efficient comparison and validation of datasets across multiple AWS accounts and DynamoDB databases.

### Systems Engineer IV @ VERISIGN
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | Reston, VA
• Maintain and develop Verisign’s global ServiceNow deployment along with numerous integrations with other enterprise applications.
• Worked as part of a two-person team to develop new features and provide operational support for the full-stack application the company uses to collect and measure compliance among the entire global infrastructure.  Application implemented in React, with the backend in Flask (Python), PostgreSQL, and Perl.
• Built system to fully automate quarterly internal auditing process throughout the organization
    o Designed a UI using AngularJS and automated email system that presents a simple unified report to managers and leadership to ensure compliance with security and audit requirements.
    o Wrote integrations between various enterprise systems to present information in a single one-stop-shop report on the ServiceNow Platform.
    o Led discussions with stakeholders throughout the organization to design and build a "fully automatic" quarterly auditing report solution.
    o Created user interface for product owners to monitor the quarterly audit process and instantly produce needed reports and artifacts to meet critical auditing requirements.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
South Dakota State University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dustin-polk-a0837945

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Last updated: 2026-03-22