Austin Milt is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Intuit Mailchimp after rapid internal promotion. He has deep expertise in ad-tech and microservices from multiple senior roles at Pandora and has steered small engineering teams at a stealth startup and crypto-focused Holaplex. Trained as a PhD scientist, Austin brings a researcher's rigor to production engineering—balancing data-driven decision making with pragmatic shipping cadence. He excels at designing reliable inter-service communication and internal tooling to accelerate developer velocity in large-scale environments. Colleagues describe him as a technical lead who moves fluidly between hands-on coding and architectural strategy, often surfacing subtle system trade-offs that others miss.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Environmental Science, BS Environmental Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Contributions:67 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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Austin Milt - Staff Software Engineer at Intuit Mailchimp