Austin Gentry
Senior Software Engineer (AI Foundations)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Gentry is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale backend systems, currently focused on AI foundations at Spotify. He has strong Java and Kotlin expertise from AWS and Spotify roles, paired with hands-on Python and TypeScript full‑stack work leveraging AWS primitives like Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and CloudFront. Austin has driven measurable impact—leading a $350K/month Google Cloud cost-savings effort and redesigning data-lateness and categorization systems that monitor and manage 100k+ datasets and endpoints. He’s also an effective on-call mentor and incident responder who improved testing and operational readiness across teams. Outside work he pursues data engineering and web projects (see austingentry.rocks), reflecting a practical blend of research-driven curiosity and production-focused execution.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Drexel University
Github Skills (5)
hydrology10
numba9
java3
encoding2
geographic2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
carsonlloyd/codefest2018
Apr 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:7 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years
WikiWatershed/gwlf-e
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Port of Generalized Watersheds Loading Functions - Enhanced (MapShed)
Contributions:229 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 4 months
hydrologynumbawatershedscivic-apps-teamhydrology-modeling
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