Austin Leahy
Co-Founder at Digital Minion
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Leahy is a seasoned cybersecurity and data leader with 11 years of experience building large-scale data platforms, threat monitoring systems, and cloud security architectures across AWS and Azure GovCloud. As Deputy CISO and co-founder of boutique analytics firm Digital Minion, he blends hands-on engineering, product strategy, and people leadership to turn internal tools into customer-facing products and to guide organizations through complex compliance challenges like CMMC. His background spans statistical research, full-stack development, and high-velocity data analysis—skills honed at eBay, Teradata, and in international work with the Peace Corps in Benin supporting West African banking systems. Known for pragmatism, he pairs cost-conscious architecture with a security-first mindset and has a track record of recapturing wasted cloud spend while elevating partner organizations through education. Based in California with a BA in Economics, he quietly leverages AI to automate high-impact security tasks and champions open-source security analytics as an Apache Spot committer.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Economics, Bachelor of Arts Economics at University of Northern Colorado
English, French
Github Skills (3)
factory5
javascript4
angular3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
batoure/ng-base64
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 9 months
factoryjavascriptangularbase-64
Digitalminion/api-django-social
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 8 branches in 5 months
authenticatorexpressnodejsjwtmongodb
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