Austin Godber
Director Of Engineering at Terascope
Tempe, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Godber is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years building distributed systems, cloud-native platforms and developer tooling—currently Director of Engineering at Terascope. He blends deep ops and systems experience (Kubernetes, Linux, AWS, Kafka, Elasticsearch) with hands-on development in Python, Node.js and Ruby, and a history of running large-scale data and imaging pipelines for NASA Mars missions. Austin has repeatedly built automation and build systems—from JumpBox virtual appliances to Salt Stack orchestration—demonstrating a knack for turning complex operational environments into reproducible, testable platforms. Based in Tempe, AZ, he combines academic roots in physics and ASU research with practical leadership, hiring and budget experience across mission-critical teams. A long-time open-source and community contributor (desertpy, Terascope) who once “worked on Mars,” he brings both curiosity and operational rigor to engineering strategy and execution.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
None Computer Science, None Computer Science at Arizona State University
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Github Skills (200)
hadoop10
realsense10
file-parser10
elasticsearch10
javascript10
charts10
sdk10
helm10
computer-vision10
json10
search-engine10
kafka10
java10
camera-api10
hdfs10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
terascope/workflows
Jun 2023 - Dec 2025
Repository for Terascope Reusable Workflows for Github Actions
Contributions:26 reviews, 28 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 6 months
godber/uberhip.com-jekyll
Jan 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years 7 months
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