Henry Austin
Product Engineer at incident.io
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHenry Austin is a product-focused engineer and architect with eight years in fintech, currently shaping incident.io's product engineering while bringing prior leadership at HeidiPay and Starling Bank. He specialises in backend systems—particularly Java and Django microservices—for payments, account management and scalable BNPL platforms, with a strong emphasis on developer experience, observability and reliable foundations. Henry has repeatedly moved projects from prototype to production (e.g., leading HeidiPay’s BNPL scalability and Bondsmith’s savings exchange prototype), blending hands-on coding with architecture and team mentorship. Trained in physics and financial engineering, he applies quantitative rigor to system design and a pragmatic focus on operational excellence and engineering culture.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Financial Engineering in Interest Rates and FX (C++ applications in Quantitative Finance) Computer Science, Financial Engineering in Interest Rates and FX (C++ applications in Quantitative Finance) Computer Science at City St George’s, University of LondonMPhys Physics, MPhys Physics at University of WarwickThe Judd School
Github Skills (11)
evolutionary8
mechanics6
database5
python5
gwt5
java-api5
api4
java4
django2
pydantic1
pydantic-v21
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
htsaustin/htsaustin.github.io
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4900 commits, 6 PRs, 22160 pushes in 7 months
htsaustin/webhookSandbox
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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