# Austin Fry

> Engineering Leader | Startup Dev | USAF Vet

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/austinfry

Full stack, entrepreneurial software engineer specializing in modern web/mobile applications and team leadership.  Formerly USAF Captain dedicated to Cyber Warfare Operations capability development.

Most frequently used frameworks include React, NodeJS, Expo, and Rails, but has worked in many others including Java, Python, PHP, C++, C, Perl, and Go.  Always looking to learn and use more.

## Work Experience
### Senior Engineering Manager @ Mercury
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Engineering Manager @ Mercury
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States

### Technical Co-founder @ Guardian Savings
Jan 2019 – Present
Web and native application that helps improve financial literacy among children and young adults.  Acts as virtual bank and educational platform for young people and encourages experiential and game-inspired learning to better prepare kids for adulthood's financial responsibilities.

Technologies: Javascript, Node.js, React, React Native, Expo, Redux, MySQL, CSS, Webpack, Git, Gitlab CI, AWS EB

### Advisor @ Switchboard
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### Head of Engineering @ Switchboard
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### Engineering Manager @ TestBox
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Staff Software Engineer @ TestBox
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Technologies: Typescript, Python, React, Django, Chalice, Terraform, AWS suite, CircleCI, Cypress, micro-services

### Senior Software Engineer @ HackerOne
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full stack product engineer focused on creating new product offerings for hackers and those that get hacked. Rotating technical lead for H1 Pentest and Vulnerability Intelligence teams responsible for transforming product and design plans into actionable engineering projects.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, Apollo, Postgres, Git, Gitlab CI

### Software Engineer @ HackerOne
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Captain @ United States Air Force
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019
Served as technical liaison and software engineer to several major programs across the DoD.  Graduate of Undergraduate Cyber Training and Cyber Warfare Operations course.

### Software Engineer, Kessel Run @ United States Air Force
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Specialized unit tasked with revamping mission critical software systems throughout the Air Force's operational units. Integrated into one of Kessel Run's project teams at Pivotal Labs location. Served as full stack developer for web app supporting process coordination and situational awareness in Air Operations Centers around the world.

Technologies: Javascript, React, MobX State Tree, Java (Spring Framework), ArcGIS mapping, MySQL, Git, npm, Concourse, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Docker, Pivotal Tracker

### Software Engineer, Government Agency @ United States Air Force
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Integrated into prominent government agency to provide support for mission-critical, embedded airborne 
systems. Served as a software engineer, developing both offensive and passive capabilities actively used in service to anti-terrorism.

Technologies: C++, embedded systems development, python

### Software Engineer, ManTech @ United States Air Force
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Integrated into software team to provide full stack support for Air Force Cyber's #1 priority project. Tasked with developing complete understanding of system and facilitating its integration with end users, interested third parties, and dependent projects.

Technologies: Python, Flask, MySQL, Javascript, React, Reflux (state management), Docker, Gulp, Mercurial, JWT, netfilter, ansible, RabbitMQ, RPC, VMware, advanced networking, Jira

### Software Engineer Lead, Partner @ MyLamp
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
Acquired by AB InBev in 2016, the MyLamp mobile application integrated social planning with location services to allow for real-time coordination between friends.

Technologies: PHP, CakePHP, Javascript, MySQL, HTML, CSS, AWS, Git


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology

### BS in Computer Science
University of Virginia


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/austin-fry-dev

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Source: https://flows.cv/austinfry
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Last updated: 2026-03-29