Austin Blackstone
Head Of Developer Relations
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Blackstone is a Head of Developer Relations with 12 years of hands-on engineering and community-building experience, now leading remote-first teams from Austin, Texas. He blends deep embedded-systems and IoT technical chops (contributions to Arm Mbed OS and BLE examples) with a talent for storytelling and teaching, turning complex tech into engaging workshops, videos, and developer portals. Known for scaling programs—growing communities, launching developer portals, and driving measurable engagement (10x Shorts engagement, major community growth at Arm)—he focuses on data-driven enablement and out-of-the-box developer experience. He has repeatedly bridged engineering and product by shipping developer tools, CI automation, and interactive guides that reduce friction and increase adoption. Equally comfortable writing firmware for Cortex-M devices and creating global content strategies, he brings a rare mix of low-level technical credibility and high-impact developer marketing.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Engineering, BSc, Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin (UT)
Japanese, English
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
bluetooth-le10
c1110
c1710
iot10
btle10
sys10
embedded10
bluetooth-low-energy10
pincode9
mobile-development9
system-configuration9
mbed9
abstraction-layer9
hal9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ARMmbed/mbed-os
Dec 2014 - Oct 2016
Arm Mbed OS is a platform operating system designed for the internet of things
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 79 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to the platform's offline export functionality and hardware support. Their work involved modifying export scripts to generate a "GettingStarted.htm" file with redirect links. They also added "Blue Lights of Death" functionality (likely an error indication) to various STM32F4 and Silicon Labs boards by modifying device header files and board-level code. Furthermore, they updated pin definitions for a specific hardware revision of a Freescale K64F board.
internet-of-thingsmbedoperating-system
evothings/evothings-examples
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Examples for Evothings Studio.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to example applications within the repository, specifically related to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology. Their work included adding and clarifying instructions for an iBeacon scan example, removing and clarifying warning messages. Additionally, they added examples for mbed custom GAP and GATT, which involved creating and integrating new functionality and UI elements to showcase BLE interactions and advertising data.
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