Austin Shirley
Founder at Canadian Space Technology Advancement Group
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Shirley is a founder and embedded software engineer with 11 years of experience turning technical products from prototype to launch, most recently building Deadband Labs to create open-source force feedback and haptic peripherals for sim enthusiasts. He blends hands-on hardware, firmware, mechanical design, and tooling with product and community strategy—intentionally prioritizing repairable, modifiable open hardware over closed ecosystems. Previously he helped productize shared sensor platforms and CI/CD toolchains at Garmin and led customer-facing developer tooling and product launches at Siemens EDA. As co-founder and director of the Canadian International Rover Challenge he learned to deliver high-impact, participant-first events on modest budgets, designing the engineering challenges teams compete against. Known for keeping engineering and customers in the same conversation, he’s comfortable shipping low-level drivers and building the operational systems that make products reliable in the real world.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computer Engineering, B.Sc, Computer Engineering at University of Saskatchewan
Github Skills (51)
python10
mqtt9
robust9
privacy9
automation9
home-assistant9
iot9
home-automation9
raspberry-pi9
garden8
internet-of-things8
photo8
transmission8
asyncio8
openvpn8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
UofSSpaceTeam/rover-hardware
Jun 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:106 commits, 44 pushes, 11 comments in 2 years
project-roverroverhardwarehardware-design
ausshir/ausshir.github.io
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:276 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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