Summary
Austin Jones is a Director of Engineering with 13 years of experience leading teams to deliver reliable, scalable software across security, data, and cloud-native environments. He combines deep backend expertise in Rust and Java with hands-on architecture and operational leadership, most recently advising multiple scrum teams as a Distinguished Engineer before joining Wabbi to ramp delivery. Austin has a track record of modernizing legacy systems into microservices, building infrastructure for rapid deployment on AWS, and founding application security and data-import programs earlier in his career. An active open-source maintainer—author of the terminal multiplexer tab-rs—he brings practical tooling sensibilities and a generative-artist’s curiosity to engineering problems. Based in Watertown, MA, he pairs systems-level thinking with a bias for shipping, often stepping into cross-discipline roles spanning DevOps, data science, and platform engineering.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer