Summary
Austin Cornelio is a technology leader, founder, and hands-on engineer with two decades of experience building scalable web, data, and AI-native systems across finance, advertising, and SaaS. As a co-founder currently building an AI-powered operational intelligence platform and a senior engineering manager at American Express, he blends product-focused architecture with operational rigor in highly regulated, large-scale environments. He has a proven track record of shipping rapid MVPs using agentic AI workflows, designing multi-tenant data pipelines, and driving modernization efforts that boost developer productivity and reliability. Comfortable across full-stack, data platforms, and vector-backed retrieval systems, he frequently bridges business strategy and engineering execution. An early practitioner of AI-assisted engineering, he also hosts conversations and workshops that translate emerging agentic patterns into practical developer tooling and specification-driven workflows. Based in New York, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts from multiple founder roles with deep experience delivering mission-critical systems at enterprise scale.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Design, BFA Design at Paier College of Art
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