Austin Burns
Technical Lead Of AI Automations
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAustin Burns is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of full-stack web experience, currently leading engineering efforts at Wistia from Orlando. He blends hands-on expertise in PHP/MySQL, Django/Python, modern JavaScript (React/TypeScript experience), and DevOps on AWS to deliver performant, maintainable products across CMS, e‑commerce, and microservice architectures. His background includes rebuilding clients and APIs, introducing typed frontends and containerized local development, and managing teams to ship new products with strong test coverage and measurable performance gains. Comfortable moving between code, architecture, and operations, he’s repeatedly reduced page load times and shortened developer feedback loops—an engineer who pairs practical engineering craft with people-focused technical leadership.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Digital Media, BFA, Digital Media at University of Central Florida
English, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
audio-files9
bootstrap9
wav9
wordpress9
ogg8
algebraic-data-types8
webcodecs8
decoding8
mp38
shortcode7
functional-programming7
api-platform7
typescript7
mp47
webm7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AustinBurns/otpwg-backend
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
Oh The Places We'll Go - Backend
Contributions:3 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
djangobackendgo-backend
AustinBurns/repo-next-template
Aug 2023 - Sep 2023
Template for starting Next projects with commonly used tools
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 23 days
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