Austin English
Lead DevOps Engineer at Visual Concepts
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin English is a Lead DevOps Engineer with 18 years of experience designing reliable, automated build and release systems for Linux/Unix environments, currently leading DevOps at Visual Concepts in Austin, Texas. He brings deep expertise in Gentoo Linux, CI/CD, packaging and release automation—work sharpened during roles at PlayStation/Gaikai and as Lead Build Engineer at TLM Partners. An active open-source maintainer and contributor, he maintains winetricks and has improved release, signing and CI workflows across Wine and OpenRC, demonstrating practical security and reproducibility improvements like GPG-signed tarballs and stricter CI checks. He combines low-level compatibility work (stubbing Windows APIs for Wine) with large-scale toolchain operations, and mentors engineers on Bash, Linux and release best practices. Not obvious from titles: his blend of upstream open-source stewardship and enterprise build infrastructure work makes him equally at home fixing a linker script or hardening a multi-repository release pipeline.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
International Master of Business Administration, Information Technology, International Master of Business Administration, Information Technology at Southern New Hampshire UniversityBachelor of Arts, Economics & Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Bachelor of Arts, Economics & Bachelor of Arts, Political Science at Texas A&M University
English
Github Skills (41)
git10
c-language10
headers10
dll10
fileheader10
wp-api10
scripting10
testing10
windows10
c1110
winapi10
cicd10
c1710
header-files10
automation10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Winetricks/winetricks
Nov 2014 - Jan 2023
Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer / Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:36 releases, 95 reviews, 1780 commits in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily focused on improving the build and release process for the Winetricks project. Their contributions included modifying the release script to create local signed tarballs, incorporating the use of a GPG key for signing, and integrating with GitHub releases using a Python script. They also addressed various shell script issues, implemented a script for bisecting wine regressions, and made adjustments to the link checking process, demonstrating a strong focus on automation and continuous integration.
winetrickswinehqwineproblemslinux
OpenRC/openrc
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
The OpenRC init system
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 12 PRs, 19 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily focused on improving the build and test processes for the OpenRC init system. Their contributions included implementing checks for trailing whitespace, obsolete functions, and style violations. They also integrated TravisCI for continuous integration and made the checks always fatal, enhancing the code quality and build reliability. Additionally, the user addressed build issues and corrected build scripts to enable the project to build correctly with muslc.
init-systemopenrcdbusirc-serverinit
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