Austin Higgins
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at FreedomPay
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
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Top SchoolAustin Higgins is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 8 years of experience building resilient, automated cloud infrastructure—currently focused on Azure, AKS, and Kubernetes at FreedomPay. He combines strong engineering chops in Golang and Python with hands-on expertise in Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions and Prometheus to deliver scalable CI/CD, observability, and incident response for mission-critical systems. His background spans on-prem to cloud migrations and database work (Postgres, MongoDB), and he has a track record of reducing downtime through IaC, SLA/SLO-driven improvements, and runbook-driven operations. Based in Greater Pittsburgh, he brings practical teaching experience from his time as a certified instructor, which informs his onboarding and internal training efforts. Notably, he enjoys “building cool stuff with containers,” reflecting a blend of full-stack curiosity and infrastructure-first pragmatism.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Phoenix
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (4)
docker-image8
minecraft8
java7
docker5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Austin-Higgins/Austin-Higgins
Nov 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
Abdallahozaifa/mhacks
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes in 2 days
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