# Dustin York

> Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Location: Kirkland, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dustinyork

I'm often wearing many hats, though I love working with people and solving tough problems. I'm currently focusing on Javascript, Node and REACT. I'm very excited by Atom, Visual Studio Code, Nuclide. I'm hoping to also dig into electron\atom more.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Lead Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025
Developer on Workflow, Release Management and Source Control systems.
- Lead Deployment View\Caching in Release Management System to show Deployments to Clusters and state
- Migrated Systems to Azure (IaaS) from Lab, Load balancing utilizing Azure ILB
- Developed websites using Kendo Components\Observables with a Google Chaps Timeline Library.
- Developed Monitoring for Systems including\Event Exception Monitoring
- Trained Users on how integrate their release processes into our systems.
- Assisted Optimization and Understanding of Source Control System, including a fix for a major incident solved by using Parallel processing to decrease operation time by 90%.
- Optimization of Caching Service

### SDET II @ Microsoft
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Primary Developer after Proof of Concept for Pipeline of Public Azure IaaS VHD with SQL preinstalled.
- Streamlined\Automated the VHD creation process while maintaining deadlines for the public release.
- Worked with both the Release team to maintain milestones and goals, while responding to Bug and issues.
- Worked with SQL Server Infrastructure teams on how to best integrate the systems while working with Azure’s evolving APIs.
- Helped to simplify\refactor the SQL Server Install automation to separate concerns and issues.
- Identified best approaches for transferring and storing large amounts of data into IaaS VNet – as this was a major bottle neck in the process.

### Software Engineer @ University of Washington
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Developer on Network Monitoring systems for the UW network, utilizing ActiveMQ, Java, Spring, Maven with a PostgreSQL SQL Database. Also developed on internal Django websites and Perl scripts that interacted with both Cisco and Juniper networking equipment.

### Build Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011
SQL Server Build Engineer

### Developer @ Treemo Labs
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Worked in Treemo Labs MVC PHP system, in development\updates such as http://thesource.com.

### Senior Computer Specialist @ University of Washington
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
Developer for UW Technology’s ticketing system, Request Tracker (Perl).

### Web Developer @ Modwest, Inc.
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007
Developer for Modwest’s web development services. This work was mainly in Linux, PHP, HTML, CSS. I also interacted with the clients directly on many of the projects.


## Education
### Bachelors in Physics
University of Montana
Jan 1999 – Jan 2004


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/duyork
- Website: http://dustinyork.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22