Summary
Austin Orton is a seasoned technology leader and Vice President of Digital Services with two decades of software development experience and a decade in senior leadership roles. He has repeatedly scaled engineering organizations from tiny teams to enterprise-grade departments, driving startups to billion-dollar valuations and delivering features that generated multimillion-dollar revenue uplift. Known for building resilient cloud-native microservice architectures and leading major AWS IoT migrations, he blends hands-on technical depth with strong product and operational instincts. Austin fosters empowered, agile teams and DevOps cultures that ship daily, while instituting security, compliance, and SAFe practices across organizations. At Adobe Workfront he led zero-to-one product initiatives that increased adoption and revenue, and he has a track record of translating stakeholder needs into data-driven business insights. Based in Lehi, Utah, he combines pragmatic engineering execution with an eye for growth and organizational leadership.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Integrated Studies, Information Systems and Philosophy, Integrated Studies, Information Systems and Philosophy at Utah Valley University