Johnny Austin
Founder at Recursive Funk
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolJohnny Austin is a founder and senior technology leader with 11+ years of experience scaling product-led fintech and AI-driven platforms, from Lockheed Martin’s cloud programs to driving Flexible Rent to ~25% of U.S. rental units and scaling Till to 6M embedded units. He blends hands-on engineering and product execution—achieving SOC 2 Type II in six months, 5x ARR growth at Mapbox, and multi-million-dollar revenue wins—while retaining 97% of teams through acquisition integrations. A pragmatic operator, he routinely restores delivery reliability (quadrupling release velocity and cutting application errors by 90%) and improves model accuracy for AI products. Now advising and leading agentic AI and B2B/consumer AI companies as a fractional CTO and Head of Agentic AI Program Management, he pairs technical rigor with a talent-first leadership style that pays forward the mentorship he once received. Notably, he moved from aerospace to computer science on a whim and turned that pivot into a career defined by product innovation, M&A execution, and measurable operational turnarounds.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Information Technology, M.S., Information Technology at University of Maryland Global CampusB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Tuskegee University
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Github Skills (144)
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windows10
node-postgres10
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javascript10
linux10
browser10
js10
music10
ajax10
zap10
rocket10
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angularjs10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
recursivefunk/plae
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 years 2 months
istrategylabs/gennifer
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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