Austen Ito
Staff Engineer at DigitalOcean
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAusten Ito is a Staff Engineer based in New York with 18 years of experience building web and distributed systems, currently advancing platform capabilities at DigitalOcean. He progressed through engineering and leadership roles there from Software Engineer to Staff Engineer, demonstrating deep institutional knowledge of cloud infrastructure and product delivery. Austen’s background spans startups and established teams—leading development at Listen, managing engineering at Bonobos, and contributing to LivingSocial’s Hungry Academy—so he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and operational rigor. He co-founded Honolulu’s first makerspace and shipped consumer-facing projects like a food-truck iPhone app and Chrome extension, showing a maker’s curiosity beyond core backend work. Known as a pragmatic problem-solver, he has driven migrations (SVN to Git), advocated agile practices, and earned technical recognition early in his career. His blend of platform-scale experience and community-driven side projects makes him effective at turning ambiguous problems into reliable, shipped solutions.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Level 3 Advanced , Level 3 Advanced at Wine & Spirit Education TrustBS Information and Computer Sciences, BS Information and Computer Sciences at University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Github Skills (72)
ruby10
solidus10
spree10
rails10
storefront10
ecommerce10
crowd9
conversations9
shopping-cart9
json-api9
api8
curve8
windows-phone7
rest7
serializer7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
austenito/dotfiles
Jul 2016 - May 2023
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
austenito/ruby-resty
Jun 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:105 commits in 5 months
rest-clientrestyrubyrest
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