Austin Heyne

Austin Heyne is a Software Engineering Manager at GA-CCRi, leading a team that focuses on creating a common stack built on Kubernetes. With experience as a Principal Software Engineer, Austin has managed a large interdisciplinary team and developed a library for Kafka Streams to enhance real-time analytics for geospatial data. Previous roles include senior software engineering positions where Austin led teams handling complex production systems and architected a large-scale HBase database capable of ingesting over 9 billion records daily. Additionally, Austin contributed to the open-source project GeoMesa and has a background in IT services, systems administration, and lab management from the University of Oklahoma, coupled with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematical Programming.