Austin Farmer
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Farmer is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud and web platforms, currently focused on Azure High Performance Computing at Microsoft. He previously contributed to the Azure Machine Learning platform and spent multiple years developing systems at Wayfair, demonstrating strength in scalable, production-grade services. Based in Durham, NC, Austin combines a strong computer science foundation from Berea College with hands-on expertise across distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and high-throughput compute. Colleagues would describe him as someone who moves smoothly between platform-level architecture and pragmatic engineering execution. He has a background in web development and media systems, an unusual blend that helps him bridge developer tooling and user-facing concerns. Outside work, he’s the kind of engineer who literally starts the day with coffee and code—comfortable iterating at both the command line and the cloud console.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Berea College
Github Skills (94)
windows10
livereload10
netcore10
k8s10
linux10
powershell10
shell10
kubernetes-cli10
macos10
command-line10
golang9
cli9
webpack-plugin9
kubernetes9
go9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
farmerau/farmerau
Jan 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
farmerau/transterpreter-plugin
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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