Austin Barnes is a software engineering leader and CTO-in-Residence with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-output engineering organizations and large-scale consumer products. He has repeatedly taken technical founder teams to the next level—overhauling release and QA pipelines, introducing career leveling and rigorous hiring to more than double per-engineer output, and driving observability and security programs. His background spans founding an e-commerce platform that processed $400k+ and led to acquisition, to launching high-traffic media products at Discovery and rapid DTC launches that generated meaningful early revenue. Comfortable both architecting SPA/API-driven frontends and managing multi-platform OTT and mobile stacks, he pairs hands-on technical chops with strategic product and M&A integration experience. Based in Austin, he blends startup grit with enterprise-scale delivery rhythms and a knack for making releases “boring” through automation and process.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Economics, Business, Foreign Languages, BBA Economics, Business, Foreign Languages at Baylor University
Contributions:1 release, 1 branch, 1 tag in 5 months
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