Austin Schaffer
Senior Software Engineer at SITE Technologies
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Schaffer is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience designing and shipping cloud-native and embedded systems, currently based in Charlottesville, VA. He’s fluent across the stack—from Kafka and TimescaleDB-powered streaming backends to Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure and Dockerized deployments—and has led cross-team efforts to deliver battery-less IoT telemetry platforms. A Linux enthusiast and data nerd who also enjoys gardening and hiking, Austin brings practical operational instincts from prior DevOps and AWS roles to his architecture work. He pairs strong systems thinking with hands-on coding in Python, Kotlin, and TypeScript, and has a history of automating development and IT processes to improve reliability and velocity.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Christopher Newport University
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Github Skills (127)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AustinTSchaffer/aspace_migrator
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:130 pushes, 5 branches, 18 tags in 6 months
AustinTSchaffer/animal-crossing-crafting-recipe-database
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Inter-related applications that process, serve, and display data related to all of the crafting recipes from Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Contributions:62 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 month
recipescrafting-recipescrossingserveinter
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