Austin Ellingwood

About Me

Work Experience

1. DevOps Engineer

   09/2021 – Present

   Smartly.io · Remote

   After the aquisition of Viralspace, I transitioned to a DevOps engineer role at Smartly. Here are some of the highlights:

   • Developed internal MLOps tool for rapid experimentation and easy productionisation of AI assists using AWS, Terraform, and Python
   • Worked on internal tool enabling 250+ developers to start up their own stack of the entire platform in Kubernetes using namespaces and RBAC
   • Developed backend service which enables any internal service to leverage LLM’s and AI assists for generative functionality, ie generating an ad campaign from a single image and prompt
   • Maintained applications on 200+ EC2 instances, 10+ clusters (EKS and ”the hard way”) across many AWS accounts and Hetzner datacenter serving millions of requests globally each day
   • Maintained Ansible stack for entire AWS and Hetzner infrastructure

2. Senior Architect

   12/2021 – 05/2023

   Procoto · Remote

   I worked as the Senior Architect for Procoto for a year and a half, bringing a YC company back from the brink of death as the old technical co-founder had left. I was able to hire two fantastic engineers to help with the front and backend.

   • Rewrote stale C++/.NET Core monolith to JavaScript (React) & Python microservice stack
   • Creating scalable/best-practice version of infrastructure (i.e. load balanced, ASG’s, CloudFront, etc.) from singular monolith exposed to internet without Load Balancer, Autoscaling, or a CDN for caching of static files
   • Served as head of engineering, mentoring and training new hires in both frontend and backend capacities
   • Developed integrations with platforms like Ironclad, Docusign, and Vizly (data visualization)

3. Backend/Infrastructure Engineer

   01/2020 – 09/2021

   Viralspace.ai · San Francisco, CA

   I was engineer #2 at Viralspace where I led the charge on developing the backend API’s that all users were interacting with. I was also building out our data platform which we used to constantly update our database with new ad data, which we then used to generate insights and make predictions on ad performance.

   • Lead developer of the entire backend which consisted of Flask app on EC2, ALB, Redis, and RDS (Postgres)
   • Overhauled AWS infrastructure to be scalable, faster, safer, and more reliable via load balancing, autoscaling, monitoring with CloudWatch, and alerting with PagerDuty
   • Built CI/CD in Bitbucket pipelines for multiple repositories and microservices in JS and Python
   • Created Kubernetes architecture for building and deploying multi-tenant microservices using EKS, Flux (GitOps), Helm, and GitHub Actions, fielding 10,000 requests per minute

4. Solutions Architect

   01/2018 – 01/2020

   Virtusa · Indianapolis, IN

   In the spring semester of my senior year I chose to intern at Virtusa which led to a full time offer after graduation. Some of the highlights are:

   • Architected HIPAA compliant environments in AWS and Virtusa datacenters using tools such as Terraform, EC2, API Gateway, CloudFront, Lambda, Cognito, and S3
   • Traveled to client sites to ensure proper launch of projects and be on site for debugging
   • Worked directly with clients to develop CI/CD pipelines that integrated into their workflows using tools like Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, and custom endpoints running deployment scripts
   • Managed 100+ legacy clients/internal tools built on SaltStack, Virtusa datacenters, and AWS
   • Developed suite of scripts to monitor and manage internal tooling which was critical to company services, as well as client services, including DNS, email, and hosting
   • Directly interacted with key stakeholders every day to ensure proper delivery of product and maintained compliance

Education

1. Economics & Computer Science

   07/2014 – 04/2018

   Wabash College · Crawfordsville, IN