Austin Roos
Software Engineer at Cash App
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Roos is a Staff Engineer with 12+ years of experience building and rescuing large-scale systems across startups and enterprises, currently based in Portland. He combines hands-on coding with technical leadership—running teams up to 12 engineers, leading crisis "tiger teams," and driving architectural migrations that reduce risk while delivering continuous value. Notable impacts include stabilizing a business-threatening database outage, championing a BFF that cut P75 load times by 100ms+, and introducing Backstage to halve new-project setup time. At Cash App he led incremental migrations for a massive codebase and pioneered practices to improve AI-assisted development quality. He focuses equally on engineering craft and people growth, having mentored engineers into senior and staff roles and led hiring across multiple teams.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (71)
python10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
apache-airflow10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
elt10
data-integration10
data-pipelines10
monitor10
data-science10
workflow-engine10
apache10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
WeTransfer/ghost_adapter
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
Run ActiveRecord migrations through gh-ost
Contributions:2 releases, 42 reviews, 56 commits in 1 year 2 months
mysqlrailsostgh-ostruby
acroos/rails_table_for
Mar 2020 - May 2021
HTML tables for ActiveRecord collections, made simple
Contributions:22 PRs, 58 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 1 month
ruby-on-railsrailsrubymhealthactivemodel
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