Summary
Austin Ward is a Tech Lead with a decade of experience building high-throughput integrations and data pipelines for companies like Lumos and Klaviyo. He has driven scalable systems that process billions of integration data points daily, upgraded storefront tracking for Shopify Online Store 2.0, and automated CI checks to raise engineering standards. Earlier roles at Capital One showcase his ability to transform metadata into Airflow DAGs, parallelize workflows to remove ingestion bottlenecks, and build real-time clickstream pipelines handling hundreds of millions of events per day. Comfortable spanning backend systems, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD automation, he pairs hands-on coding with team leadership to deliver measurable performance improvements. A hackathon enthusiast, Austin brings a product-minded curiosity that surfaces in cross-functional upgrades and creative prototyping. Based in the United States, he combines solid engineering rigor with a track record of operationalizing complex data flows for near-real-time use.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Binghamton University
High School, High School at East Islip High School
English, Spanish