Austin Hallock
Founder & CEO at Truffle
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Hallock is a founder and CEO with 17 years of product and engineering experience building high‑growth consumer and nonprofit platforms from early prototypes to millions of monthly users. He founded and scaled gaming and creator businesses (including products that reached tens of millions of users and a 5M MAU game marketplace) and now runs Truffle, an infrastructure play for creators, while also directing tech-for-good efforts through nonprofit ventures like TechBy.org and FreeRoam. Comfortable wearing every hat, he combines hands‑on engineering with product strategy and nonprofit mission alignment, having shipped mobile apps with strong retention (100k MAU, 4.8 rating) and platform integrations (Facebook Messenger partnerships). Based in Denver, he dropped out of UT Austin to pursue startups and brings a mix of entrepreneurial grit, operational leadership, and a persistent focus on building sustainable tech for community impact.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Dropped out to focus on startup Computer Science, Dropped out to focus on startup Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinRalston Valley Senior High SchoolAustin Community College
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Github Skills (155)
twitch10
controller10
xbox10
backend10
streaming10
mongoose10
dotnet10
youtube10
truffle10
game-controller10
react-native10
uwp10
react10
browser9
windows9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
FreeRoamApp/back-roads
Jul 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:203 commits, 143 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
famhq/fam
Sep 2016 - Dec 2020
Client-side code for Fam
Contributions:287 commits, 1 PR, 230 pushes in 4 years 3 months
famtypescriptclient-side-codeclient-side
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