Summary
Austin Herring is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, user-facing systems and platform tooling across Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon. Currently contributing to Horizon Worlds at Meta, he focuses on creating experiences and technologies that connect people in the metaverse. At Microsoft he worked on Intune, honing skills in large-scale endpoint management and enterprise-grade reliability. Earlier roles and internships show a strong foundation in distributed services, debugging at scale, and UI/backend work using C#, ASP.NET, and data visualization. He has teaching experience as Head TA at Georgia Tech, where he designed coursework, automated grading, and managed academic integrity—highlighting his attention to quality and developer ergonomics. Based in Bellevue, WA, he blends production-grade engineering with a knack for turning research and teaching practices into practical tooling that improves team productivity.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Senior at Georgia Institute of Technology