Austin S
Chief Operating Officer
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin S is a serial entrepreneur and operator with a decade of experience building and scaling consumer brands and a demonstrated knack for translating product ideas into national distribution. He founded Big Easy Bucha and grew it from apartment batches to placement in over 5,000 retail locations before a strategic acquisition, then co‑founded Southbound Tequila focusing on brand, retail strategy, and rapid scaling. Now advising and investing in consumer ventures from Saint Petersburg, FL, he also mentors minority-led founders to achieve product-market fit. Unusually for a consumer operator, he contributes to open-source engineering—improving the AnkiConnect plugin with new API endpoints, tests, and compatibility fixes—bringing a pragmatic technical eye to product and process.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of South Florida
Github Skills (7)
api10
python10
apidoc10
anki10
testing10
sqlite9
sqlite-database9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
FooSoft/anki-connect
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Anki plugin to expose a remote API for creating flash cards.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:1 review, 29 commits, 11 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Austin significantly enhanced the AnkiConnect plugin by adding new API endpoints for managing model fields and retrieving review information. They refactored existing code, replacing a bulk action with the 'multi' action for improved efficiency. Their contributions also included adding tests, improving code style and formatting, and implementing version compatibility fixes. The user demonstrates expertise in extending the plugin's functionality and ensuring its stability and maintainability.
ankiremote-api
Aquafina-water-bottle/jmdict-english-yomichan
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 66 commits, 69 pushes in 5 months
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