Chris Austin
Principal Software Engineer (Insolvent) at Polyverse Corporation
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Austin is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience designing cloud-native, distributed systems and developer-facing orchestration tooling across companies like HPE, NGINX, and F5. He builds end-to-end solutions—from REST and GraphQL APIs to React frontends and Kubernetes/Terraform-based provisioning—while emphasizing scalable microservices, pub/sub messaging, and operational resiliency. Recently he architected an AI-powered engineering assistant and bespoke vector-store approaches to keep LLMs vendor-agnostic and context-aware, blending prompt engineering with product-focused telemetry and feedback loops. Known for decoupling monoliths, defining service contracts, and introducing pragmatic data platforms (Kafka/Elasticsearch), he also mentors engineers and leads reliability and scale testing efforts. Based in Seattle, he brings hands-on implementation skills in Java, Go, NodeJS, and Docker/K8s combined with a knack for turning research prototypes into production-ready developer experiences. Despite recent layoffs, he’s actively building and open to conversations about solving hard systems and product problems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Western Washington University
Github Skills (78)
google-places10
autocomplete10
google-maps10
places-autocomplete10
controlled10
nginx-configuration10
react-component9
dynamodb9
api9
vogels9
amazon-dynamodb8
javascript8
github8
material-ui8
nginx8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Giners/mui-places-autocomplete
Oct 2017 - May 2018
Google Material Design (Material-UI) styled React component using Google Maps Places Autocomplete
Contributions:12 releases, 21 commits, 43 PRs in 7 months
react-componentreactgoogle-material-designgooglegoogle-maps-places
Giners/agent
Feb 2023 - Aug 2023
NGINX Agent provides an administrative entry point to remotely manage, configure and collect metrics and events from NGINX instances
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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