Austin Brooks
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Brooks is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems across major cloud and observability platforms. He spent nearly a decade at Amazon before joining Datadog, bringing deep experience in production-quality services and deployment workflows. Austin contributes to notable open-source tooling, including backend work on the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains that expanded Java Lambda support and improved cross-platform deployment and documentation UX. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he blends large-scale system design with hands-on implementation, often tackling platform nuances like Windows path handling and build-tool integrations. Trained in computer science at Virginia Tech, he focuses on developer experience improvements that make complex cloud workflows more reliable and accessible.
10 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 Virginia Tech
Github Skills (7)
javas10
aws-lambda10
java10
gradlew9
gradle9
maven9
aws-cloudformation8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-toolkit-jetbrains
Aug 2017 - Nov 2021
AWS Toolkit for JetBrains - a plugin for interacting with AWS from JetBrains IDEs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 841 reviews, 701 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to the backend development of the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains by implementing core features, such as supporting Java-based Lambda functions and introducing improvements to the deployment process. Their work includes querying project roots from Maven/Gradle for Java handlers, making path mappings case-insensitive for Windows, and creating functionality to support the creation of help pages for the UI. These changes improve the developer experience by extending Java Lambda support and providing better documentation.
aws-lambdajetbrains-idesjetbrainssamaws
abrooksv/intellij-community
Nov 2019 - May 2024
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 7 months
intellij-ideacommunity-editionintellij-pluginjavaintellij
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