Austin Pager
Co-Founder at Coast
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Pager is a Co-Founder and engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building backend systems and scaling startups. He combines product-minded entrepreneurship from Y Combinator S21 with hands-on backend development, notably contributing to the Sia blockchain storage project by improving host reliability, block explorer tests, and API endpoints. At Coast he brings practical distributed-systems experience to early-stage product development, translating complex backend requirements into user-facing features. His background in economics and organizational change from Northwestern informs a pragmatic approach to team and product design. Known for a candid, no-nonsense developer voice, he pairs curiosity with a track record of shipping reliable infrastructure components. He excels at bridging startup strategy and low-level engineering to deliver robust, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
S21, S21 at Y CombinatorBachelor's degree Economics | Learning and Organizational Change | Business Institutions , Bachelor's degree Economics | Learning and Organizational Change | Business Institutions at Northwestern University
Github Skills (10)
go10
blockchain10
testing9
apidoc9
api9
kernel-module8
jsmodules8
storage8
decentralization8
go-modules8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NebulousLabs/Sia
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Blockchain-based marketplace for file storage. Project has moved to GitLab: https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/Sia
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:129 commits, 30 PRs, 155 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Austin contributed to the Sia project, a blockchain-based marketplace for file storage, by implementing features and making fixes related to the host and block explorer modules. They fixed issues in the host module related to obligation deletion, developed unit tests for the block explorer module, and added notifications for better synchronization within the block explorer. They also worked on the API, adding an endpoint to retrieve the current block from the block explorer.
marketplacefile-storageblockchaingitlabdecentralized
triazo/Sia
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:55 pushes, 6 branches in 27 days
file-storagemarketplaceblockchainstorage
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