Summary
Brian Austin is a senior engineering manager with over two decades of embedded software and test leadership at recognized semiconductor and safety-technology firms, now steering teams at Flock Safety from Austin. He combines deep hands-on firmware and systems experience cultivated at Cirrus Logic with people-management skills that consistently deliver against tight customer and timeline pressures. Brian has moved from individual contributor roles into multi-team management, building processes that align hardware-constrained product delivery with rigorous test automation. He’s comfortable bridging silicon, firmware, and production test, translating complex hardware requirements into reliable software releases. Based in Austin, he brings a practical, delivery-focused mindset and a track record of mentoring engineers to raise team effectiveness in mission-critical projects. An early tech entrepreneur as Chief Systems Architect, he retains a builder’s curiosity that informs pragmatic innovation in product engineering.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
AS Computer Engineering Computer Programming, AS Computer Engineering Computer Programming at Thompkins Cortland Community College