Summary
Austin Corso is an engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating Tier-1 distributed systems across fintech, e-commerce, and retail. Currently managing international teams at Cash App, he oversees disputed-transaction workflows that combine machine learning, policy rules, and customer-facing in-app experiences while serving as Reliability Lead for a ~150-person department. Previously he led large-scale supply and last-mile planning systems at Amazon that delivered billions of packages and drove a multi-year rearchitecture, and he has deep experience designing multi-tenant GraphQL, containerization, and DR architectures from his time at Nike. Comfortable shifting between staff-engineer depth and engineering-manager breadth, he has repeatedly led cross-org technical programs and interim product strategy to align engineering with business outcomes. His background includes formal study in deep learning and strategic innovation, which he applies to fraud detection and automated investigation workflows. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who scales teams and systems while keeping an eye for operational reliability and customer impact.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Coursework in Maths Algorithms Cryptography, Coursework in Maths Algorithms Cryptography at University of Leicester
Master's degree selected coursework - Deep Learning with Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree selected coursework - Deep Learning with Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at Austin
Certificate HBX Strategic Innovation and Business Management, Certificate HBX Strategic Innovation and Business Management at Harvard Business School
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Software Engineering at George Mason University