Josh Austin
Principal Engineer at Invest with Roots
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Austin is a Principal Engineer and entrepreneur based in Alpharetta, GA with 13 years of experience building cloud platforms, infrastructure, and secure web services for startups and enterprise teams. He has repeatedly led engineering organizations through product and platform transitions, most recently as Principal Engineer at Invest with Roots after infrastructure leadership at Ninety.io and product-focused principal roles at Parrot and Luma. Josh blends hands-on systems design with strategic advising—he founded and exited a startup (MaaSive.net → Ionic Security), served as an early investor and technical architect for UnBrokerage, and has guided security- and cloud-first initiatives across multiple companies. His background includes uncommon domain crossover from medical device fieldwork to enterprise cloud architecture, giving him a practical customer-facing perspective on technical solutions. Comfortable shifting between code, ops, and boardroom strategy, he focuses on delivering reliable, scalable platforms while mentoring teams to operate them effectively.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Clemson UniversityCertificate Implantable Cardiac Devices, Certificate Implantable Cardiac Devices at ATIMBA Business, MBA Business at Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
Github Skills (164)
python10
automation10
infrastructure10
authenticator10
remote-execution10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
scale10
event-stream10
configuration-management10
iot10
documentation-generator10
salt10
docker10
zeromq10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ntrepid8/ex_redis_pool
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 57 commits, 8 PRs in 6 months
redisredis-clientelixirconnectionpools
ntrepid8/ex_crypto
Oct 2015 - Feb 2022
Wrapper around the Erlang crypto module for Elixir.
Contributions:9 releases, 85 commits, 38 PRs in 6 years 4 months
cryptographyerlangelixircrypto
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