Summary
Austin Gatlin is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems across startups and Fortune 500 clients, currently consulting and contributing to open source while writing about tech at gatlin.io. He has shipped backend and full‑stack systems in Elixir, TypeScript, Kotlin and Rust, and has led projects ranging from global IoT device servers to payment migrations that moved over $10M for a health‑tech client. Recent work spans AI tooling for codebases, blockchain wallets and dApps, and distributed systems for universal basic income research—demonstrating comfort with both bleeding‑edge stacks and high‑stakes production reliability. Trained in philosophy to the PhD level, he brings uncommon rigor to architecture and the philosophy of computer science, applying formal thinking to pragmatic engineering problems. Comfortable both advising and hands‑on coding, Austin blends research instincts with a track record of shipping resilient systems and incubating new product ideas.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Physics (B.S.) Philosophy (B.A.) Astronomy (B.S.) Mathematics Minor, Bachelor’s Degree Physics (B.S.) Philosophy (B.A.) Astronomy (B.S.) Mathematics Minor at The University of Texas at Austin
Johns Hopkins University
German