Alex Austin
Software Developer at Dejero
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Austin is a software developer with nine years of hands-on experience bridging software and hardware, currently working at Dejero after leading pro-graphics efforts at AMD. He specializes in C/C++, Python, Linux, and Windows kernel graphics driver development, with deep experience troubleshooting complex kernel defects using WinDbg and designing modern C++ frameworks. His background includes embedded firmware work, RFID feature design, and automating hardware validation with Arduinos, reflecting a practical fluency across firmware, drivers, and system-level tooling. At AMD he improved onboarding processes and led chapter-level coordination, showing a knack for both technical leadership and team enablement. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he’s a McMaster Computer Engineering graduate who channels a lifelong love of video games into thoughtful systems-level engineering.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering (Co-op), Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering (Co-op) at McMaster UniversityLaurel Heights Secondary School
Github Skills (8)
pfsense4
graylog3
influxdb2
dashboard2
grafana2
monitoring2
telegraf1
opnsense1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alexwmaustin/Brawlhalla_AutoLaunch
Jul 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
jen-feng/3D-Tank-Game
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:41 commits in 1 month
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