Austin Berard is a Lead Software Engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building robust systems in Python and C++. He has progressed from intern to technical lead roles at FarSounder and Morningstar, and now leads engineering at Orum, demonstrating a steady trajectory of increased responsibility. His background blends hands-on development with team leadership, shipping production software across instrumentation and financial services domains. A University of Rhode Island computer science graduate, he favors pragmatic, performance-oriented solutions and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Colleagues rely on him to untangle complex codebases and mentor engineers through architectural and operational challenges. Outside of work he brings a systems-thinking approach likely shaped by early product-focused engineering at maritime sensing startup FarSounder.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Rhode Island
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
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Austin Berard - Lead Software Engineer at Orum 🥇