From 1999 – 2007, he worked as the co-founder and chief scientist of Caramba Labs Software AG in Vienna (acquired by ProjectNetWorld AG), a VC co-funded software company focused on software for collaborative processes in teams. He is the co-founder and chief scientist of Coovally.ai, an AI infrastructure company based in Barcelona. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Computing (Springer). Dustdar is the recipient of multiple awards: IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Leadership Award (2018), IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (2019), ACM Distinguished Scientist (2009), ACM Distinguished Speaker (2021), IBM Faculty Award (2012). He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea: The Academy of Europe, as well as an IEEE Fellow (2016).

I focus on resilient large-scale distributed software systems. The fundamental concerns I work on include: (1) compositional software services spanning the whole Compute Continuum including: IoT sensors, Edge devices, Fog server, and Cloud data centers; (2) data, as it flows within that infrastructure; (3) coordination, context, and control; and (4) security and privacy. My goal is to develop a set of coherent scientifically grounded methodologies and open-source software tools for addressing the engineering of large-scale distributed software-intensive (IoT) systems by focusing on these outlined areas. By providing the necessary scientific foundations, I develop engineering support—buttressed with novel and groundbreaking scientific approaches—to address challenges from a more advantageous ecosystems vantage view. More recently i started to focus on Active Inference and the question of Distributed Intelliegence in AI Infrastructure.