Austen Collins
Founder, CEO at Serverless Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAusten Collins is the founder and CEO of Serverless Inc. with 12 years of experience building cloud-native developer tools and companies from San Francisco. He created the Serverless Framework and continues to lead its evolution, combining product vision with hands-on backend engineering—particularly around serverless REST and GraphQL patterns and integrations with AWS services like Lambda and DynamoDB. Known for shipping practical examples and boilerplates that accelerate adoption, he bridges developer experience, architecture, and go-to-market execution. Unexpectedly, he remains an active contributor to core example repos, shaping the opinionated scaffolding many teams use to move serverless ideas into production.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (24)
lambda-functions10
javascript10
apidoc10
aws-lambda10
amazon-dynamodb10
api10
dynamodb10
aws10
serverless-framework10
serverless10
nodejs10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
wpgraphql9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/examples
Nov 2016 - Jun 2019
Serverless Examples – A collection of boilerplates and examples of serverless architectures built with the Serverless Framework on AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Functions, and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Austen primarily contributed to the backend logic of a serverless REST API, as evidenced by the code modifications in `users.js` and related utility files. They added and modified configurations, implemented user creation and display functionalities, and integrated with AWS DynamoDB. Furthermore, the user worked on structuring the serverless framework for the project. The user appears to be focused on expanding and refining the core functionalities within the serverless application.
serverlessaws-lambdagoogle-cloudawsmicrosoft
serverless/serverless-graphql
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Serverless GraphQL Examples for AWS AppSync and Apollo
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Austen primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the serverless GraphQL examples. They created initial scaffolding for various Lambda functions, including those for API endpoints and events, using Node.js. Their work involved defining basic function structures and integrating with the back-end/api/data directory, alongside setting up authorization mechanisms with an example. The user also added babel runtime support.
aws-appsyncgraphql-examplesserverlessaws-lambdagraphql
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