Austin Gundry is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building high-throughput distributed systems and financial platforms. He led development of Netflix’s revenue-processing systems and previously scaled Sprout Social’s social listening pipeline to handle ~450M messages per day and helped grow a B2B product to over $1M MRR. Comfortable across backend languages and cloud infrastructure, he has driven microservice rewrites, storage-cost reductions, and cross-functional initiatives linking Product, Data Science, and Infrastructure. Known for "painting systems red" to make them faster, he combines hands-on coding with pragmatic architecture and a knack for performance tuning that shows up in both real-time data platforms and mission-critical financial systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Northwestern University
Contributions:6 PRs, 36 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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Austin Gundry - Staff Software Engineer at Netflix