Austin Hanson
Principal Software Engineer at Oracle
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Hanson is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing distributed systems and scaling engineering teams, currently driving architecture and productivity at Oracle from Sioux Falls. He blends hands-on backend expertise—evidenced by contributions to the cloud-native .NET Orleans framework fixing concurrency and credentialing issues—with a history of leading mobile and cross-platform initiatives at companies like Amazon, CentralSquare, and CarsForSale. As a former Director of Engineering and CTO, he pairs technical depth with hiring, process, and product leadership, helping organizations ship complex services in public safety and consumer domains. His academic background (MS in Computer Science, summa cum laude) underpins a rigorous approach to system design and reliability. Known for refactoring build tooling and improving developer experience, he quietly multiplies team throughput rather than just writing code. He brings a pragmatic, systems-first mindset to problems that span mobile clients, backend services, and distributed concurrency.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude at South Dakota State University
English
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Github Skills (25)
orleans10
net10
dotnet10
distributed-systems10
asp-net10
android10
mkdir10
actor-model10
concurrency10
csharp9
dotnet-core9
go9
cloud-native9
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/orleans
Jan 2018 - Jan 2021
Cloud Native application framework for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 44 comments in 3 years
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to the Orleans framework's core functionality, addressing concurrency and distributed system challenges. Their commits involved fixing race conditions within the queue cache and implementing null checks to address potential credentialing issues. Additionally, the user refactored code and updated documentation related to the code generator and build processes, improving the development experience.
dotnetconcurrencycloud-computingdistributed-actorsframework
berdon/Orleans.Providers.Redis
Sep 2018 - Sep 2021
Redis stream provider for Microsoft Orleans
Contributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 38 PRs in 3 years
redisprovidermicrosoft-orleansredis-streamstream
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