Austin Hackett
Principal Engineer - Big Data Platform
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAustin Hackett is a Principal Engineer specializing in big data platforms and SRE with 14 years of experience building and operating high-performance data infrastructure from on-prem Hadoop and Oracle estates to cloud-native deployments. Based in London, he has progressed through technical and leadership roles at G-Research and IHS Markit, delivering production MongoDB, Hadoop, Oracle and DataStax platforms with rigorous performance validation, automation and runbook-driven operations. He combines hands-on platform engineering—creating Puppet modules, CloudFormation templates and detailed system testing—with team leadership experience as a technical lead and principal engineer. Notably, he has a track record of diagnosing stability issues under load, standardising deployable environments in minutes, and turning complex capacity and HA requirements into repeatable, production-safe architectures.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 BA Hons., 2:1 BA Hons. at University of Kent
Github Skills (45)
yahoo8
java8
google-cloud-platform7
indexing7
databases7
benchmarking7
database7
hive6
google-cloud6
sql6
analytics6
benchmark6
kudu5
presto5
sql-database5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ahackett/Oracle-DBA-Scripts
Jan 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:31 commits in 3 months
brianfrankcooper/YCSB
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark
Contributions:1 comment, 2 issues in 1 day
servingbenchmarkingbenchmarkyahookubernetes
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