Austin Cawley-edwards
Principal Software Engineer at Confluent
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Cawley-Edwards is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating production real-time data platforms, currently shaping stream processing and event-driven systems at Confluent. As co-founder of Immerok and a former Ververica tech lead, he specializes in Kubernetes, Apache Flink, messaging systems, and CI/CD, with hands-on experience running large-scale Flink deployments and cloud-native operator patterns. He blends deep systems-level engineering with developer ergonomics—improving tooling, observability, and deployment pipelines—to make teams and communities more efficient. An active open-source maintainer, his contributions span Apache Flink, Kuma (CNCF sandbox), Prometheus, and Kubernetes client libraries, plus user-facing docs and example work in projects like p5.js. Based in New York, he pairs startup grit with production reliability, and has a habit of turning conference talks and operator implementations into repeatable, well-documented patterns others can adopt.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Scientifique, Scientifique at Lycée BagatelleBachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Science at Stevens Institute of TechnologyWoodstock Union High School
English, French
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Github Skills (53)
monitoring10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
javascript10
apache-flink10
testing10
http10
big-data10
machine-learning10
xsd10
p5js10
java10
cicd10
rabbitmq10
javas10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
chaijs/chai-http
Jul 2018 - Feb 2021
HTTP Response assertions for the Chai Assertion Library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 22 commits, 35 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily focused on enhancing the Chai HTTP library's functionality and ensuring its reliability. They introduced features allowing property checks on prototype objects and updated the testing suite to reflect these changes. Furthermore, the user contributed to the library's maintenance by releasing new versions, improving the codebase, and incorporating improvements to existing functionalities. The user's contributions centered on improving the library's reliability and extending its capabilities, as evidenced by the bug fixes and new feature implementations.
assertion-libraryassertionstestingassertionhttp-response
kumahq/kuma
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
🐻 The multi-zone service mesh for containers, Kubernetes and VMs. Built with Envoy. CNCF Sandbox Project.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:81 reviews, 16 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to the Kuma project by implementing features, improving the Helm chart deployment process, and addressing issues in existing functionality. Their work involved adding flags to skip mesh creation and integrating the ingress installation into the control plane installation. Furthermore, they have enhanced the project with features such as horizontal pod autoscaling. Additionally, they worked on the CI/CD pipeline, including chart releases and tests, demonstrating DevOps capabilities.
kumacontourconnectivityvmssandbox
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