Chris Austen
Sr. Manager Software Development at AMD
Keswick, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Austen is a seasoned software leader with 11+ years in development management and a long history of hands-on firmware and ML framework engineering, currently serving as Sr. Manager of Software Development at AMD. He built and led teams at IBM focused on Power architecture firmware and optimized machine learning stacks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, RAPIDS, SnapML, Caffe), shipping via Conda and container channels and introducing CI/CD and developer practices. Comfortable coding in C/C++, Python and Perl, he has released hostboot BIOS to GitHub, automated large-scale OSS due diligence, and created tooling for automated product validation and analytics. Known for cultivating team learning through initiatives like “Think Friday” and translating customer pain into product improvements, he blends deep embedded-systems expertise with modern ML deployment experience. Based in Keswick, Ontario, he pairs practical engineering craft with leadership that scales complex, cross-disciplinary software efforts.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at DeVry
Github Skills (102)
optimization10
software-update10
onnx10
hardware-acceleration10
graph10
amd10
documentation10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
keras10
scikit-learn10
openbmc10
openpower9
high-performance9
accelerator9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
causten/openbmc-barreleye
Oct 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:31 pushes, 60 branches in 10 months
openbmcdistribution
causten/phosphor-host-ipmid
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 52 pushes, 48 branches in 1 year 2 months
ipmiendpointdbushost
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