Post a Comment Please do not use blog comments for support requests! Blog comments do not scale well to this effect. Dustin Kirkland Twitter , LinkedIn is an engineer at heart, with a penchant for reducing complexity and solving problems at the cross-sections of technology, business, and people.
Dustin was awarded the title Master Inventor at IBM, in recognition of his prolific patent work as an inventor and reviewer with IBM's intellectual property attorneys. Dustin then first joined Canonical as an engineer eventually, engineering manager , helping create the Ubuntu Server distribution and establishing Ubuntu as the overwhelming favorite Linux distribution in Amazon, Google, and Microsoft's cloud platforms, as well as authoring and maintaining dozens of new open source packages.
Dustin joined Gazzang , a venture-backed start-up built around an open source project that he co-authored eCryptFS , as Chief Technology Officer, and helped dozens of enterprise customers encrypt their data at rest and securely manage their keys.
Gazzang was acquired by Cloudera Google Cloud recruited Dustin from Canonical to product manage Google's entrance into on-premises data centers with its GKE On-Prem now, Anthos offering, with a specific focus on the underlying operating system, hypervisor, and container security.
This work afforded Dustin a view deep into the back end data center of many financial services companies, where he still sees tremendous opportunities for improvements in security, efficiencies, cost-reduction, and disruptive new technology adoption. Seeking a growth-mode opportunity in the fintech sector, Dustin joined Apex Clearing now, Apex Fintech Solutions as the Chief Product Officer , where he led several organizations including product management, field engineering, data science, and business partnerships.
