Austen Constable
VP Platform
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAusten Constable is a seasoned technology leader and VP Platform with over a decade of experience building and operating large, globally distributed engineering organizations in financial services and education. He combines hands-on software and platform expertise with transformational strategy, Agile and DevOps practice leadership to drive change at scale and improve end-to-end delivery and run capabilities. His background spans senior roles at Credit Suisse, RBS and dunnhumby, where he led DevOps, environments and IT strategy functions that multplied team performance and reliability. Known for calm, organized execution under pressure, he excels at turning complex organisational challenges into pragmatic, measurable improvements. Austen’s product-design education and early CTO/co-owner experience give him an uncommon blend of user-centered thinking and commercial pragmatism behind platform decisions. Based in England, he is a recognized change agent who focuses on sustainable ways of working rather than one-off process fixes.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Program, Product Design, Exchange Program, Product Design at San Francisco State UniversityBSc (Hons), Product Design, 2:1, BSc (Hons), Product Design, 2:1 at Brunel University London
Github Skills (42)
sis9
leadtime9
gatsbyjs9
aws8
hierarchy8
circleci8
devops8
visualization7
terraform7
rest-api6
sdk6
profiling6
terraform-provider6
logging5
azure5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
awconstable/happiness
Feb 2017 - Apr 2021
A team happiness collection and visualisation PoC
Contributions:5 releases, 21 PRs, 92 pushes in 4 years 2 months
visualizationemployee-engagementhappinessteam-metrics
awconstable/deployservice
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
A deployments repository to measure lead time and deployment frequency performance
Contributions:12 releases, 13 PRs, 57 pushes in 10 months
continuous-deploymentdeployment-frequencyleaddeploymentdeploy
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