Austin Moore
SDE III at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Moore is an experienced SDE III with 11 years building cloud-native infrastructure and developer-focused services, currently working on Amazon S3’s web server and byte-processing systems. He has a strong track record across AWS and Kubernetes ecosystems, contributing to production-grade tooling like kops and bringing container best practices from prior roles at AOL and Capital One. Austin prioritizes developer experience and clean interfaces, translating deep systems knowledge into practical improvements for service reliability and operability. He has hands-on expertise in deploying and optimizing Kubernetes on AWS, including work on kubelet flags, EBS optimizations, and cross-zone load balancing. Based in Virginia, he blends infrastructure-level thinking with attention to the everyday workflows of engineers who run and maintain services. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he often focuses on small, high-leverage changes that make large-scale operations smoother.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
automation10
infrastructure10
kops10
automations10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
cloud-services10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
terraform9
dockers9
docker9
terraformer9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kops
Oct 2016 - Sep 2019
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:41 commits, 13 PRs, 56 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Austin focused on improving the `kops` project's operational capabilities. Their contributions included handling specific exit codes from package update commands, adding support for setting kubelet flags, and incorporating EBS volume optimization features. They also addressed configuration issues by moving code to utility packages and enhancing the project's flexibility with features like cross-zone load balancing.
containersgcphelmlinodeinstallation
aol/mrcrypt
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 29 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 2 months
command-line-toolencrypt-secretsregionskmsaws-regions
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