Dustin Whittle

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Senior Technical Yahoo! / Developer Advocate at Yahoo!
Contributor at symfony
Principal at Parvenu, Inc

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Dustin Whittle’s Summary

At the moment I specialize in developing scalable web platforms and developer advocacy. I enjoy contributing to making the web better.

Dustin Whittle’s Specialties:

web frameworks, developer advocacy, bringing together businesses, open source, distributed architectures, scaling, performance, web services, structured data, semantics, accessibility, web standards, social user interfaces, social media, PHP, Python, Javascript, HTML5, OAuth, OpenId, OpenSocial, Facebook Platform, Microformats

Dustin Whittle’s Experience

Senior Technical Yahoo! / Developer Advocate

Yahoo!

(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

December 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

• Senior Engineer working on Yahoo! Application Platform
• Developer Advocate promoting Yahoo! Developer Network / Open Strategy
• Served as primary architect on a presentation platform based on the open-source symfony framework. Advised on integration opportunities with other Yahoo! platforms and technologies. Contributed Yahoo! enhancements back to open-source community.
• Supported large international development teams redeveloping properties like Delicious, Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Widgets, and Yahoo! Bookmarks.
• Provided technical reviews and mentorship for developers, in addition to recruiting technical talent and conducting interviews.
Contributor

symfony

(Internet industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Principal

Parvenu, Inc

(Internet industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )

• Self-employed consultant working with clients around the world building scalable web applications and teaching best practices for performance and security.
• Advocating open source web platforms at technical conferences around the world.
• Providing commercial support and training for php / symfony framework.

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Dustin Whittle’s Interests:

new technology, symfony, php, python, javascript, c, java, development, design, standards, all things innovative, entrepreneurship, investing, new people, biking, flying, traveling, open source, social networking, social media,