Jonathan Austin
Vice President Engagement And Growth at Springer Nature Group
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Austin is a product and platform leader with 14 years of experience building engagement and growth strategies for complex, platform-based organisations, currently serving as Vice President Engagement and Growth at Springer Nature. He has a track record of creating researcher-focused products and operational metrics—having introduced a company-wide customer loyalty metric and set up a researcher engagement product group—while previously leading platform and product teams across Springer and BBC News. Trained as a physicist with a PhD in Biophysics and recent executive study in organisational leadership at Oxford Saïd, he blends rigorous analytical thinking with practical product and people leadership. Early-career R&D engineering experience and hands-on contributions to embedded projects like the widely used ARMmbed DAPLink firmware give him uncommon depth across both hardware-adjacent systems and large-scale digital product strategy.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSci, Physics With a Year in Europe, 1st Class, MSci, Physics With a Year in Europe, 1st Class at Imperial College LondonPostgraduate Diploma in Organisation Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Postgraduate Diploma in Organisation Leadership, Organizational Leadership at Saïd Business School, University of OxfordPhD, Biophysics, PhD, Biophysics at The Institute of Cancer Research, U. of London
French
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ARMmbed/DAPLink
Aug 2015 - Nov 2021
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 24 comments, 5 issues in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the DAPLink firmware, focusing on low-level embedded system aspects. Their work included modifying the target reset functionality, integrating firmware version information for URLs, and updating string messages to improve user experience. Additionally, the user adjusted CDC buffer sizes to optimize WebUSB performance, indicating a focus on embedded systems and device communication.
firmwaremicrocontrollermbeddebugmcu
bbcmicrobit/hardware
Nov 2017 - Aug 2020
Hardware designs for the BBC micro:bit
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 9 months
designsbbcbbc-microhardware-designshardware
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