Austin Orth
Senior DevOps Engineer at Machinify
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Orth is a Senior DevOps Engineer with eight years building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading reliability and platform work at Machinify. He has deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform/OpenTofu, FluxCD, Helm, and GitHub Actions across complex, compliance-sensitive environments including AWS GovCloud and FedRAMP. As a former manager of SRE at Niche, he scaled teams, owned roadmaps, and drove migrations from legacy CI/CD to GitHub Actions while instituting monitoring, security, and cost reporting. He combines technical chops (bare-metal Postgres, AMIs, Cloudflare Workers, Kaniko) with an MBA focused on IT management, giving him both operational discipline and product-minded leadership. Outside engineering he founded Pittsburgh Tech Beat and DJs/produces, signaling strong community engagement and creative problem solving. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic operator who turns messy systems into repeatable, observable platforms.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Allegany College of MarylandMaster of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration with a focus in IT Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration with a focus in IT Management at Southern New Hampshire UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at University of PittsburghBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Waynesburg University
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Github Skills (171)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
austinorth/pagerbot
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A bot that updates Slack usergroups based on PagerDuty schedules.
Contributions:6 releases, 48 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year
oncallusergroupspagerdutyschedulesbot
austinorth/just-too-easy
Oct 2018 - Feb 2025
Foosball
Contributions:9 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years 5 months
foosball
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