Summary
Cameron Rison is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with 12 years building resilient infrastructure and developer tooling across enterprise and startup environments. He specializes in AWS, Terraform, Puppet, Linux administration and IaC, currently driving infrastructure architecture and solutioning at USAA. Cameron’s background includes operating and automating large-scale web estates at General Motors, co-founding Privatir to design cloud-backed systems for capital-raise workflows, and shipping side projects that reflect a pragmatic, product-minded approach. He blends hands-on systems work—writing CLIs, Chef/CICD automation, and Flask services—with a strong preference for hygienic, fault-tolerant ecosystems that make teams more productive. Known for enjoying every layer of the stack, he’s as comfortable in shell scripting and Kubernetes as he is sketching system architecture. Practical, curious, and entrepreneurial, he often surfaces small operational improvements that yield outsized reliability gains.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Texas at Austin