Moss Austin is a senior software engineer and trained scientist with 12 years of experience building reliable backend systems and developer tooling from startups to Google. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep systems thinking and hands-on implementation—shipping production services in Go and Ruby, designing data architectures, and leading production migrations and integrations like EPCS and Stripe. He founded a privacy-first social network and led build-acceleration efforts that use test selection to dramatically speed CI, showing both product-mindedness and infrastructure expertise. At Google he contributed to the widely used Go Cloud Development Kit, improving server drivers and adding features like URL signing and monitored resource support. Colleagues rely on him for solving thorny infra-language edge cases (zero vs nil in Ruby) and for designing meta-programmatic API frameworks that make services easier to extend. Trained as a molecular genetics PhD, he brings scientific rigor to software problems and a proven ability to translate complex domain requirements into robust, auditable systems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Genetics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Genetics at Clemson University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Molecular Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Molecular Genetics at The Ohio State University
The Go Cloud Development Kit (Go CDK): A library and tools for open cloud development in Go.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:24 commits, 54 PRs, 25 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Moss primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure and server-side logic of the `go-cloud` repository. They implemented features such as a server/driver package with a defined interface, and added constructors for `DefaultDriver` to apply timeouts. Furthermore, the user worked on the addition of a monitored resource argument to the StackDriver server constructor and implemented URL signing for fileblob. These modifications indicate a focus on enhancing server functionality, adding features, and improving the overall utility of the Go Cloud Development Kit.
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