Richard Austin
Retired
Sequim, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorRichard Austin is a retired principal software engineer with over a decade of experience building resilient data platforms and services, particularly in Scala, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra and Akka. He treats software as a reusable business asset, championing relentless refactoring, unit testing and component-driven design to reduce effort solving new problems. At Dexcom and SweetSpot he helped design large-scale data pipelines and lakes that turn medical data into actionable insights for people with diabetes. Earlier roles at Symantec and enterprise healthcare firms show a consistent focus on testability, high coverage and pragmatic architecture across Java, .NET and cloud-ready stacks. Even in retirement he volunteers on environmental software projects for the Salish Sea, reflecting a continued drive to apply engineering skills to mission-driven work.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (38)
onvif10
ubuntu10
security-camera10
aes10
jpeg-xl9
dpkg9
avx9
webapp9
smart-table8
groovy8
spring-boot8
ffmpeg8
java8
chrome8
web-platform8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
richard-austin/drawdown-calculator
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Project to calculate pension drawdown
Contributions:8 releases, 73 commits, 44 PRs in 1 year
calculatepensiondrawdownfinance-managementpersonal-finances
richard-austin/cloud-server
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Cloud service for one or more security-cam NVR systems
Contributions:5 releases, 34 PRs, 130 pushes in 3 years 4 months
angularcctvcctv-monitoringclouddpkg
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