Austin L
Sr. Cloud Engineer at Priority Payment Systems
Cumming, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin L is a Sr. Cloud Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently leading infrastructure at Priority Payment Systems. He blends deep DevOps and platform expertise—from CI/CD and CloudFormation to high-concurrency data processing—with hands-on embedded and IoT firmware work as a lead contributor to Meshtastic and Armbian packaging. Comfortable across Linux packaging, Debian build systems, and microservice architectures, he has a track record of migrating and modernizing production environments while automating operational toil. Based in Cumming, GA, he pairs enterprise cloud engineering with low-level firmware and distribution maintenance, a combination that helps bridge edge devices to secure, scalable backends.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
English
Github Skills (12)
gps10
esp3210
lora10
mesh10
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
stm9
build-system9
arduino8
rp20405
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
meshtastic/firmware
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
This repository contains the official firmware for Meshtastic, an open-source, off-grid mesh communication system.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 82 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to the firmware for Meshtastic, focusing on supporting different hardware platforms. They added support for the "t-energy-s3_e22" board by modifying variant configurations, including settings for various peripherals such as the GPS, LoRa, and screen. Further contributions involved integrating uClibc and portduino-buildroot variants, as well as Debian packaging and build system updates.
rp2040nrf52meshfirmwareoff-grid
vidplace7/meshtastic-firmware
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Meshtastic device firmware
Contributions:79 pushes, 15 branches in 5 months
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