Brian Auton
Staff Engineer at Firstup
Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Auton is a Staff Engineer with nearly two decades of professional software experience and a deep specialty in Ruby on Rails, test-driven development, and continuous delivery. He has a long track record of rescuing and modernizing legacy applications, running a Rails-focused consultancy, and scaling engineering practices across teams at Firstup and its predecessor SocialChorus. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and technical lead, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring, code review, and pragmatic DevOps improvements (Docker, Chef, Capistrano). Based in the Philadelphia area, he brings startup founder grit from multiple ventures and a habit of translating messy legacy systems into well-tested, deployable products. An understated strength is his ability to evaluate codebases and ops holistically—balancing developer ergonomics with production reliability.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Appalachian State University
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Github Skills (10)
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Github contributions (5)
brianauton/conjure
Oct 2012 - Jan 2016
Contributions:304 commits, 11 pushes, 4 tags in 3 years 3 months
brianauton/rspec-contracts
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:91 commits in 1 month
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