Summary
Devin Austin is a senior software engineer with 17 years building backend systems and resilient infrastructure, currently at Empower and based in Englewood, Colorado. He specializes in Scala, Java, and Python and has deep operational experience across AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres/MySQL, Redis, and caching layers like Varnish and Nginx. Devin has a proven track record managing large-scale data and image platforms (multi-terabyte datasets and 20M+ records) from his long tenure at Ancestry and has moved fluidly between DevOps, IaaS, and application development roles. He’s comfortable shaping architecture and shipping reliable APIs while automating deployments with Ansible and Terraform. A longtime open-source contributor in the Perl/Catalyst ecosystem, he brings a pragmatic blend of legacy-system fluency and modern cloud-native practices. Colleagues rely on him for steady, production-minded engineering that balances scalability, observability, and practical trade-offs.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration in Computer Information Systems, Business Administration in Computer Information Systems at University of Northern Colorado
Computer Security computer science computer forensics relational databases networks, Computer Security computer science computer forensics relational databases networks at Metropolitan State University of Denver