# Austen Piers

> Software Engineer @ Google | Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/austen

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States
Working on the Ads Features & Performance team -- a horizontal team across Google's advertisement infrastructure that focuses on advertiser experience and their return on investment.

Improving Time-to-Serve for advertisers, which is the time between Ad creation and the first desired outcome (typically first impression). Involves identification and measurement of key Ad delivery checkpoints, and improving SLA of cross-functional infrastructure.

Improving Budget Utilization by dynamically setting target spend, which improves Advertisers impression of Google ads and improves retention.

### Data Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park
Data point-of-contact for Pages Data -- upper funnel of Ads & Business Platform

Create scalable, efficient, and forward-looking datasets used by hundreds of employees as a source of truth to service data needs; from machine learning features to trend analysis

Designing and published "one-pager" dashboards to track metric goals and report on earnings

Data-driven product guidance by assessing opportunity gain of preposed features

As a namespace owner, tasked with resource management across the Pages organization to reduce cost, latency, and redundancy

Bi-weekly presentation to the Ads & Business Platform Org, highlighting success stories to achieving metric goals

Deep-dive dashboard automation API to allow for distinct count data across non-MECE dimensions and auto-publish a dashboard with multi-selectors

Growth Anomaly Detection API to diagnose and alert on company growth metrics
Leading design reviews of data models preposed by colleagues

Interviewing and mentoring new hires

### Data Engineer - Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Menlo Park
Created end-to-end data unit-testing framework for Facebook search queries
Improving logging coverage by updating client endpoints

### Software Intern @ Wyatt Technology Company
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Created unit-testing framework and unit-tests for firmware installations on the Windows-OS, retail, light scattering instruments
Created a continuous integration system updating remote instrument firmware, and preforming unit testing
Created a Windows installer (NSIS) for new devices

### Undergraduate Intern @ IGERT - UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Web-scraping and formatting of NCBI data-series
Refactored post-doc code to run in on multiple machines in parallel to achieve results by deadline 
Performed accuracy tests on three machine learning algorithms using ten-fold, stratified cross-validation across all samples
Developed basic parameter smoothing algorithm that narrowed potential biomarkers of research ailments (ADHD, various cancers)


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science -- Computational Biology Emphasis
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

### Lenox Memorial Middle and High School
Jan 2006 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/austen-piers

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Last updated: 2026-03-22