{"id":9758,"date":"2023-03-02T18:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T18:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/durolabs.co\/?post_type=press&#038;p=9758"},"modified":"2024-06-13T19:26:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:26:10","slug":"dustin-diaz-joins-duro-as-director-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/durolabs.co\/press\/dustin-diaz-joins-duro-as-director-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Diaz Joins Duro as Director of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9758\" class=\"elementor elementor-9758\" data-elementor-post-type=\"press\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f49f50c posts-inner-container e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1f49f50c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f66246c post-text-block elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f66246c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Los Angeles, CA \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webwire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WEBWIRE<\/a>\u00a0\u2013Thursday March 2nd, 2023<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durolabs.co\/\">Duro<\/a>, the leading enterprise cloud-native PLM for managing hardware product data, announced today the strategic addition of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dustindiaz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dustin Diaz<\/a>\u00a0as Director of Engineering.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd902fe elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"fd902fe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"402\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/durolabs.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/team-Dustin-Diaz-sq.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-9774\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durolabs.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/team-Dustin-Diaz-sq.jpg 402w, https:\/\/durolabs.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/team-Dustin-Diaz-sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/durolabs.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/team-Dustin-Diaz-sq-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7469dc17 post-text-block elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7469dc17\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Diaz\u2019s approach to engineering is rooted in building people-first teams and processes as well as nurturing a high-trust and low-blame culture. In his new role at Duro, Diaz will harness his extensive experience in hiring and growing efficient teams. He will oversee the engineering department, spearhead hiring efforts, and enable all Duro employees to think with an agile mindset.<\/p><p>\u201cWe\u2019re extremely happy to have Dustin join us at Duro, where we\u2019re working to make distributed hardware teams more agile by the day,\u201d said Michael Corr, CEO and Co-Founder of Duro. \u201cHis passion for people-first engineering, deep understanding of agile practices, and proven track record are exactly what Duro needs to reach the milestones we\u2019ve planned for 2023 and beyond.\u201d<\/p><p>Diaz brings over 20 years of software engineering and leadership experience. The seasoned technology veteran has helped found and launch notable companies and products including: Medium, Mix.com, Twitter, Change.org, Google\u2019s Gmail, and Yahoo\u2019s Y Site Builder. Prior to joining Duro, Diaz led over 50 engineers across different teams at Route, a post-purchase experience platform and package tracking company.<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to lead Duro\u2019s mission in accelerating the hardware industry to the modern age of agile while simultaneously leveling up our Engineering culture to become increasingly more adaptive and forward thinking. I\u2019m looking forward to helping Duro as it proceeds to fully embrace a true DevOps culture,\u201d said Dustin Diaz, Head of Engineering at Duro. \u201cI\u2019m passionate about building an engineering culture based on trust, innovation, agility, and collaboration. I believe this will help Duro increase development productivity and be a reflection to the industry in driving massive change in cloud PLM.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3538f89d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3538f89d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About Duro<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ad73b81 post-text-block elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ad73b81\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner wysiwyg\" data-v-3ef3205d=\"\"><p>Duro is an enterprise cloud-native data management platform that is empowering the next generation of hardware teams in the era of agile development. The company offers leading PLM resources and solutions that leverage software automation to centralize fragmented product data and create a single source of truth across all teams. Duro unleashes complete data transparency to increase workforce productivity and reduce the risks inherent in engineering and manufacturing hardware products. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the award-winning company was founded by Michael Corr and Kellan O\u2019Connor. Duro is helping companies like Sphero, Rapid Robotics, and Gilmour Space Technologies innovate better and faster.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webwire.com\/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=301557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View release<\/a><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"featured_media":9759,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"press-tag":[89,90,91],"class_list":["post-9758","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","press-tag-announcements","press-tag-industrial-automation","press-tag-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durolabs.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/9758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durolabs.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durolabs.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/durolabs.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/9758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9797,"href":"https:\/\/durolabs.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/9758\/revisions\/9797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durolabs.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durolabs.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"press-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durolabs.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-tag?post=9758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}