Preston Austin
MUSICat Architect
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPreston Austin is a veteran software architect and founder who has spent three decades building multimedia platforms and community-focused products, currently leading MUSICat to help public libraries curate and share local music collections. He blends product leadership, team-building, and hands-on architecture to create network-deliverable tools for collaborative, richly interactive media that extend human capabilities in learning, teaching, and entertainment. A serial entrepreneur and consultant, Preston has founded and led multiple companies—from Clotho and 3x5 Software to Murfie—and advises teams on strategy, adoption, and sustainable technology practices. Based in Madison, WI, he pairs technical depth with a strong emphasis on humanitarian and environmental standards, experimenting with alternative marketplace models like two-sided platforms and complementary currency. Notably, his work often targets civic and educational contexts, aiming to realign business ethics and community value through better software.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Psychology, Chemistry (minor), Bachelors, Psychology, Chemistry (minor) at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (9)
git10
subversion10
github10
patch10
finder3
react2
httpd2
hsts2
filesystem2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
therabble/musicat-marcout
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:10 PRs, 13 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 5 months
therabble/org.spl.playback
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:13 PRs, 21 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 1 month
public-library
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