Austin Rife
Software Dev Manager III at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Rife is a software engineering leader with nine years of experience building and scaling secure AI/ML and cloud services, currently managing GenAI engineering for Amazon Dedicated Cloud in the Bay Area. He combines an MBA in Financial Engineering with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering to bridge technical architecture, product strategy, and cost-conscious operational design. At AWS he led cross-site teams to deliver air-gapped ML solutions for intelligence and military customers, launching innovations like MLSpace, LISA, and Bedrock in isolated environments. Previously he shipped automation and API platforms that saved hundreds of thousands of engineering hours annually by driving CI/CD integration and large-scale adoption. A hands-on developer at heart, he writes games and game engines in his spare time, signaling deep systems-level curiosity beyond enterprise cloud work. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic connector who coordinates large, distributed teams to turn complex, security-sensitive requirements into production-ready services.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Lowell High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of AlabamaMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Financial Engineering, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Financial Engineering at University of Alabama, Manderson Graduate School of Business
Github Skills (3)
obsidian3
minecraft-forge2
minecraft2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
EdenLabs/rusting_bitmaps
Feb 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:129 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
techgeek1/rmath
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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