Chris Austin Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Washington, US

• Insolvent
• Designed and implemented initial version of AI Chat Assistant using OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-4) LLM, React, TypeScript, NextJS, Node and Redis to act as Software Engineer aid (https://boost.polyverse.com/)
• Performed prompt engineering to iterate on AI Chat Assistant to move it towards performing the roles of a Software Architecture and Project Manager delivering more value to our customers
• Designed and implemented lightweight project management tools that integrated with AI Chat Assistant to help it fulfill its role as a Project Manager
• Worked to make our solution AI provider agnostic to avoid lock-in to any specific LLM
• Designed solution to allow customers to rate/like responses from LLM for future fine-tuning

San Francisco, California, US

• Laid Off
• Initial senior engineer assigned to revitalize shelved telemetry project/service
• Worked with Product Management to identify goals for deploying and short/longterm goals to focus on after deployment
• Verified the interfacing of a new agent to our services and other expected UX
• Co-developed scale/soak test framework to verify initial scalability requirements
• Shared on-call duties to ensure our deployed services were functioning properly

Houston, Texas, US

• Developed REST based control plane used to manage the data inter connect in our HPC systems
• Introduced LACP parity to allow our customers to migrate from static LAGs to dynamic LAGs
• Established patterns for writing REST services based on past working knowledge of framework used to build control plane
• Improved the scalability of our control plane to support the growing HPC systems of our customers
• Worked to decouple monolith services to establish well-defined roles/responsibilities for services and reduce cognitive overhead
• Helped maintain test beds to support continuous integration environment and allow developers to check out machines

Pleasanton, California, US

• Analyzed architecture for structural decay and guided Engineering on how to modernize our software for cloud native environment
• Worked to mature and remove technical/logistical friction from Engineering so that it could scale during a time of rapid growth
• Worked many roles while leading efforts for software acceptance into Department of Defenses next gen Docker/k8s based cloud
• Designed backend improvements to our threat and vulnerability management systems that would track classes/types dynamically loaded out of vulnerable libraries that our customers applications were consuming
• Worked to improve the health diagnosis of our customers applications by correlating temporally different data collected on the application during the pre-deployment phase with the deployment phase of the applications.
• Guided Engineering to adopt Elastic search and Kafka as a more suitable solution for how we modeled and accessed our data

Seattle, Washington, US

• I'm currently involved in a new initiative to build F5's next generation public cloud offerings using Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Go - significant contributions thus far:
• Extended k8s API with custom resource definitions and used k8s tooling to create a client API interface that consumed said custom resources
• Created controller to provision infrastructure in AWS using Terraform for Pods without any Nodes suitable for placementI was also involved with building a distributed service architecture as well as building a cloud.
• Method for which pub/sub communication takes place
• Created generic extensibility point interfaces to allow customers to hook their own workflows into the workflows exposed on F5 products (BIG-IP/BIG-IQ/iWorkflow)
• Orchestrated the discovery and cataloging of application/service templates for both cloud providers/admins and cloud tenants

• Started Patchez as a side project so that I could invest in myself and grow my knowledge and skill sets with a focus on full stack development and lean development/customer discovery.Patchez is a service that aides.
• Transpiled and bundled client application using Babel and Webpack
• UI crafted with React while using Google Material Design principles to guide the UX (implemented with Material-UI)
• Integration with Google Maps service to provide geospatial/geocoding features to the UX
• Declarative UI rendering based on clients navigation (i.e. URI routes) using React Router
• Managed client application state with Redux

Bellingham, WA, US

• Worked in a structured software development environment using C# where my responsibility was to support the life-cycle of Logos Bible Software 4. Daily tasks included finding the cause of bugs and creating shippable.
• Capture an undefined amount of points corresponding to a mouse movement from a user.
• Transform the captured points into a defined amount of points.
• Match the transformed points against a template which corresponded to a command.
• Execute the command as well as provide a visual tip to the user for the executed command.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science