Austin Kucera

Building a way for Developers

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R. Austin Kucera

Building a way for developers

Fisher College of Business (OSU)	BS in Business Administration	Full Academic Scholarship
Ohio State University	BA in English	Magna Cum Laude, GPA 3.7
Trinity Forum Academy	Nine month leadership and research fellowship	Full Scholarship

T-CETRAC#, ASP.NET

Principal Engineer

2023-Present

Led two .NET teams responsible for system auth and modernized reporting
Acted as developer, tech lead, architect, project manager, and interface to customers and vendors
Evaluated logging platforms and chose, operationalized and trained developers on using DataDog
Evaluated, operationalized and trained developers on Retool

FuseKotlin, AWS, K8s

Tech Lead

2021-2023

Led organization-wide transition from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes
Founded two teams, including training the replacement tech lead for the first team
Created a flexible Concourse pipeline generator that most product teams adopted in order to comply with security and DevOps requirements while maintaining autonomy and productivity
Led the bi-weekly tech-leads meeting by curating and presenting topics, facilitating discussion, and creating working groups
Founded the 'Software Craftsmanship Guild' to encourage engineering quality through presentations and panel discussions
Led (architected, planned, and achieved consensus) cross team integration to modernize a legacy process for creating and processing invoices for pharmacy services

Agility PartnersKotlin, Angular

Tech Lead (for Fuse)

2020-2021

Collaborated with my product owner, architect, and delivery manager to architect a solution, hire developers, and establish a culture of craftsmanship on a new team, for a new internal product

PillarElixir, Kotlin, React, AWS, K8s

Software Artisan

2018-2020

Created simulation to act as input data for the Data Engine before hardware was manufactured
Led creation of full stack app that visually demoed power of the Data Engine for the SxSW demo
Co-led mini dev team of struggling developers in order to help them come up to speed
Organized, led, and presented Learning Lunches
Led effort to locally run our cloud environment, in order to speed up development

NationwideJava, Angular, AWS

Developer / Tech Lead

2014-2018

Developed a chat bot that gives advice to small business owners. Powered by AWS Lambda, Lex, AWS Cloud Formation, and Machine Learning
In a team of three, leveraged AWS to build a demo over a three day period that recognized associate faces
Led one of eight teams on a tier one project: a Java application that manages ~25% of Nationwide's income

Over 6,000 public contributions on Github since 2019
Writing a tech blog at austinkucera.com/blog
Created 32 modifications for 4 games that have been downloaded over 1,000,000 times

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"If you want a successful project and a happy client, then you want Austin."

- Johnson, Pillar Tech Lead