Austin Ellis is a retail strategy leader based in Dallas with 12 years of experience turning finance and operations data into actionable commercial decisions for hardware businesses. Currently leading retail strategy for Roku’s first-party TV business, he owns sales and distribution expansion as well as revenue and profit performance while leveraging market insights to keep ahead of industry trends. Previously he built Roku’s demand-planning models and led forecasting for >15M annualized units across hundreds of SKUs, aligning supply, channel inventory, and promotions to hit in-stock and margin targets. His background in FP&A and supply chain at Roku and Texas Instruments gives him a rare blend of financial rigor and operational execution, from tariff scenario modeling to factory build plans. He also brings hands-on engineering-minded problem solving from open-source contributions to Atheme IRC Services, where he implemented back-end features and integrations. Known for turning complex cross-functional data into digestible leadership narratives, he excels at aligning partners to predictable, profitable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Business, Supply Chain and Operations Management, Business, Supply Chain and Operations Management at Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
Economics and Accounting, Economics and Accounting at University of California, Santa Barbara
Contributions:74 commits, 10 PRs, 67 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to the Atheme IRC Services project by implementing and modifying features related to channel services, specifically focusing on the ANTIFLOOD and GUARD flags. They addressed issues related to the ANTIFLOOD functionality and integrated support for Unreal4 IRCd. Further contributions include improvements to HostServ, ChanServ, and OperServ, which involved modifying responses to users, adding new commands and functionality.
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