Austin Hill

Led platform engineering for a system ingesting multiple terabytes of data supporting enterprise RAG workloads. Designed agent-centered tooling (including an MCP server and multiple CLIs) and built capabilities such as GPU cost optimization and event-driven export of security events to external SIEM systems.

Built the observability platform from scratch using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenSearch to provide engineering-wide visibility across production AI microservices. Developed ingestion quota enforcement and a licensing system for airgapped enterprise deployments.

Owned requirements gathering, roadmap development, and architectural design for observability, scalability, and supportability for the next-generation BIG-IP product family. Led multiple teams and delivered observability microservices integrating with third-party telemetry systems while creating organization-wide supportability standards to improve customer outcomes and reduce mean-time-to-resolut

Led a team producing the control plane for a new product supporting F5 expansion into the market for Kubernetes-based 5G infrastructure. Designed and delivered the green-field control plane for Service Proxy for Kubernetes and trained and mentored teams on software development and Kubernetes knowledge.

Developed customer-facing features for the BIG-IP control and management plane to support load-balancing, network protocol, and security capabilities. Led full-stack development for configuration of new protocols and features and served as SME for BIG-IP Configuration Utility triaging and solving critical product issues.

Developed new capabilities and features for an e-commerce website to support sales growth and maintained business-critical financial, payment-processing, and database systems. Refactored marketing content management software to improve flexibility and speed of content creation and integrated Facebook with e-commerce and marketing sites to increase sales.

Developed features and capabilities for a next-generation marksmanship training system used by police and military organizations. Built a firearms tracking system for faster shot detection, led a second-generation computer vision product to increase simultaneous trainees, and developed a high-performance data processing framework integrating Oracle XMLDB.

Developed networking and training capabilities for imaging and sonar systems on U.S. Navy submarines. Led formal testing, integration, and delivery at Navy facilities and developed CORBA network applications to enable imaging data communication within a distributed sensor processing system.

Earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.