Austin Gebauer
Senior Security Software Engineer (Starlink) at SpaceX
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Gebauer is a Senior Security Software Engineer with eight years of experience building secure, cloud-native systems, now contributing to SpaceX’s Starlink. He brings deep expertise from leading Vault identity, authentication, and secrets engine work at HashiCorp—authoring features like OIDC identity provider, SAML, workload identity federation, and dynamic secrets—and practical systems experience from F5 where he built operators, gRPC APIs, and cloud integrations. A hands-on backend engineer and open-source contributor, he has notable commits to HashiCorp Vault and the Terraform Vault provider, improving credential rotation, JWT/GCP auth flows, and test coverage. Based in Redmond, WA, he pairs rigorous engineering with security-first design and a penchant for solving tricky edge cases in distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at University of Washington
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Github Skills (32)
algorithms10
lintcode10
testing10
terraform10
data-structure10
jwt-authentication10
terraformer10
go10
vault10
data-structures10
database-management10
error-handling10
apidoc9
linked-list9
api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
austingebauer/go-leetcode
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
A collection of 100+ popular LeetCode problems solved in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 21 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily focused on solving LeetCode problems in Go within the context of the `go-leetcode` repository. Their commits involved implementing solutions for various data structure and algorithm problems. The solutions included changes to import statements and the implementation of solutions.
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hashicorp/vault
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:850 reviews, 265 commits, 581 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily worked on improving the database plugin within the repository. Their commits focused on fixing credential rotation for database plugins using WAL, including adjustments for WAL rollback logic and database connection management. They also added testing coverage to the rollback procedures. In addition, they updated comments and made style changes to improve the error handling, imports and signature line wraps.
access-managementencryptionvaultgosecrets
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