AustenĀ Herbst
Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer at Southwest Airlines
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAusten Herbst is a Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer with six years of focused experience evolving Southwest Airlines' digital platforms and web presence since joining as an intern in 2011. He rose through engineering roles on Southwest.com to lead cloud and DevOps initiatives, combining hands-on software development with platform reliability and operational excellence. Austen has practical experience shipping customer-facing features, building internal tools, and automating tests and data workflows that improved efficiency across teams. He excels at bridging legacy application knowledge with cloud-native practices to drive scalable deployments for high-traffic travel services. Based in Dallas, he brings deep institutional context of airline systems and a track record of turning operational pain points into automated, auditable solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who favors measurable impact over hype.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Arlington
Github Skills (45)
sonarqube10
sonarqube-plugin10
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decoration10
swagger9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
austen-herbst/optic
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
OpenAPI linting, diffing and testing. Optic helps prevent breaking changes, publish accurate documentation and improve the design of your APIs.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
austen-herbst/openapi-multi-file-ref-example
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
š Multi-file boilerplate for Open API Specification
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
open-api-specificationapiredocboilerplatespecification
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