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Austin J. Hardy

Austin J. Hardy


United States, Sevierville, TN, US
en, es

Background


About

About

Developer Productivity & Integration Engineer with 16+ years connecting enterprise tools, automating workflows, and building platforms that empower thousands of engineers. Deep Atlassian expertise paired with hands-on GenAI tool development — MCP server architecture, Spring AI, and natural-language interfaces to internal systems. Known for being the technical authority others rely on when the systems need to actually work. Ut prosim.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Systems Engineer, Netflix, Inc.

    Nov, 2023 - Mar, 20262 years 4 months

    Senior Systems Engineer on the NTech Systems Engineering team. Served as the subject-matter authority for Atlassian tooling while owning and evolving a broader integration platform spanning Slack, Zendesk, Google, and 1Password. Built the connective tissue between internal systems and external tools — on-call for all production bridges and integrations.

    • Atlassian Informed Captain — Served as the primary Atlassian-certified technical authority across the organization: championed product improvements and best practices, and was the go-to voice for tooling decisions, stakeholder questions, and operational standards.

    • Cloud Transformation & Partner Migrations — Supported a large-scale Atlassian Data Center to Cloud migration for 5,000+ external partners, resolving blockers, fixing cutover bugs, and applying configuration changes — including scheme migrations in the cloud environment — to keep the project moving and ensure operational continuity. Also developed Python-based scripts to replicate user identity and authorization data during M&A-related Atlassian platform migrations.

    • GenAI-Powered Self-Service Bot (MCP Server) — Revived a legacy Slack bot originally built for datacenter operations, modernized it to current engineering standards, and rebuilt it as a full Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integrated with an internal GenAI registry. Enabled engineers to search issues, run JQL queries, create and update tickets, manage project access and roles, and provision new projects entirely via natural language — removing the need for site-admin involvement on routine operations. Grew from 30,000 to 60,000+ requests per week within the first week of broader rollout and usage continued to scale.

    • Support Channel Automation & Deflection — Extended the same MCP bot into engineering support channels to surface Jira permission diagnostics, suggest access fixes, and resolve automation issues in-thread without escalation, substantially reducing support tickets that previously required site-admin intervention.

    • Developer Productivity & SRE — Owned and operated 6+ production services; raised test coverage from near-zero to the 75% organizational gold standard and established daily redeployment cadences across legacy repositories that previously had no automated deployment pipeline. Maintained on-call coverage for all integration bridges across Slack, Zendesk, and Google.

    • Platform & Integration Work — Stabilized a high-traffic mutual TLS API proxy supporting millions of requests across multiple OAuth scopes; designed and maintained a custom data sync service connecting Jira Assets to internal sources of truth; managed enterprise SCIM identity connector deployment with automated Jenkins update pipelines; built automated workflows to reactivate lapsed partners and prune inactive ones with upstream authorization checks and full audit trails; implemented multi-language Jira workflows for a global product division across 15+ languages; built agile dashboards serving thousands of engineering users; and delivered custom Jira configuration and automation for an ad operations team supporting multi-million dollar revenue-linked workflows.

  • Systems Engineer, Coinbase Global Inc.

    Apr, 2022 - Nov, 20231 year 6 months

    Served as Atlassian platform engineer on the IT Operations team, managing Jira, Confluence, and JSM alongside third-party integrations. Focused on automation, compliance, and enabling agile teams at scale.

    • Release Tracking System — Transformed the cross-functional approval and rollout process for tracking features, releases, and programs, improving coordination across teams serving millions of global customers.

    • IT Program Intake Automation — Streamlined IT Program Management with automated self-service reporting and dynamic dataset handling, reducing manual overhead for intake workflows.

    • Compliance Access Controls — Automated restricted issue-level security controls for MNPI (Material Non-Public Information) compliance across the organization.

    • Audit Artifact Automation — Automated SOC and R&D expense artifact gathering in Jira, supporting multi-million dollar refund processing and significant audit preparation time savings for tax and legal teams.

    • Web3 & Crypto Education — Completed internal Crypto-U curriculum and served as a team representative for internal web3 education and adoption initiatives.

  • Senior Systems Administrator, Blackboard, Inc.

    Apr, 2018 - Apr, 20223 years 11 months

    Served as SRE and platform lead for Atlassian Server/Datacenter tools supporting Product Development and Delivery teams. Drove Agile transformation, executed cloud migration, and governed third-party toolset standards.

    • Executed Atlassian Cloud migration strategy with a Platinum partner; decommissioned legacy VMs and promoted AWS adoption.

    • Drove Jira SAFe transformation and integrated Jira Align across PDD programs; standardized schemes for 100+ active projects.

    • Managed third-party SaaS assessments for security, accessibility, and UX; coordinated SAML/SCIM/Azure AD changes.

    • Eliminated technical debt: removed 200 old projects, legacy integrations, and unused licenses.

    • Served as Scrum Master, deployed self-service Jira AIO add-on, and enabled Power BI reporting via AWS.

  • Application Administrator, MAXIMUS sub. Omni

    Oct, 2016 - Apr, 20181 year 6 months

    Managed middleware, SecOps, auth, and DevOps tooling for the Dept. of Education Debt Management System supporting 4,000 users 24/7/365.

    • Standardized change management processes and environment procedures across middleware, TFA, TLS, and Help Desk systems.

    • Improved legacy systems: Symantec TFA, TLS 1.2 compliance, and Help Desk DB/client reporting via SSIS.

    • Acted as SME across teams for DevOps tooling, automation development, and legacy system upgrades.

  • Production Control Specialist (SME), MAXIMUS sub. Omni

    Aug, 2014 - Sep, 20162 years 2 months

    Provided 24/7/365 production control support and site reliability for the FICO Debt Management system. Oversaw DBA, Application, and System Admin operations; repaired reports database mappings and supported Help Desk development.

    • ProdOps / 24x7 / ETL, Help Desk Admin, SOP/SLAs, Triage, SysAid, ReportsDB, SQL, SSMS, SSIS, HTML

  • Production Operations Support, Xerox sub. Omni

    Jan, 2014 - Jul, 20146 months

    Production Control SME for the DMCS team. Monitored ETLs, supported DBAs and system admins, and documented/transitioned contract procedures for a smooth handoff.

    • ProdOps / 24x7 / ETL, JBOSS, SLAs, Reporting, Contract Transition

  • Systems Engineer I, OmniSystems, Inc.

    Apr, 2014 - Apr, 20184 years

    Served as a key IT resource for organizational staff. Maintained the server room, configured network/DMZ, and stood up an internal Help Desk to centralize IT SOP knowledge. Consulted on new business alongside DMCS contract work.

    • Worked on the DMCS contract as a subcontractor; consulted on internal projects and new business opportunities.

  • Junior Systems Engineer, OmniSystems, Inc.

    Apr, 2010 - Apr, 20144 years

    Provided field and infrastructure support across USVI government agencies and commercial clients. Handled everything from network configuration to device training and security enforcement.

    • USVI clients: EDA Marketplace, Superior Court, Police Dept, Fire Services, WAPA, WICO, UVI.edu

    • Taught a former Lieutenant General to use iCloud, recovered clients' critical data, and enforced device security standards across the organization.

  • Call Center Representative (Tier 1+), REAC-TAC Dept of HUD - sub:TomSawyerLLC

    Nov, 2008 - Feb, 20092 months

    Tier 1+ Help Desk support for HUD. Trained call center staff, modified support systems, and escalated complex issues to Tier 2.

    • Housing and Urban Development, Remedy, Phone Support, Technical Training

  • Call Center Representative (Tier 1), REAC-TAC Dept of HUD - sub:CCSI

    May, 2008 - Jul, 20083 months

    First-tier Help Desk support for HUD REAC-TAC. Handled password resets, data entry, status updates, and Tier 2 escalations.

    • HUD, Remedy, Phone Support

Skills

Skills

  • Atlassian Suite

    Jira

    Jira Service Management

    Confluence

    Atlas

    Compass

    Bitbucket

    Crowd

    Jira Align

    Access/Guard

    StatusPage

    Cloud / Datacenter / Server

  • AI/ML & Developer Productivity

    MCP Servers

    Spring AI

    GenAI Tool Integration

    Claude API

    OpenAI

    AI-Assisted Development

    Prompt Engineering

    Tool Annotation Frameworks

    Natural Language Processing

    TensorFlow

    TesseractOCR

    PyTorch

    Jupyter

    Hugging Face

    Developer Tooling

    IDE Extensions

    Command Pattern Architecture

  • AWS

    EC2

    S3

    IAM

    RDS

    ELB

    ALB

    Gateway

    CloudFormation

    Terraform

    Pulumi

    Amplify

    CloudWatch

    CloudTrail

    Lambda

    ECS

    EKS

    EBS

    Route 53

    VPC

    CloudFront

  • Blockchain

    rust

    Solana

    Solidity

    Ethereum

    Smart Contracts

    wagmi

    Web3.js

    Ethers.js

    IPFS

    NFTs

    Chainlink

    Buildspace

    Truffle

    Hardhat

    Polygon

    Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

    Web3

    Tokenomics

  • Communication

    Executive Quarterlies

    All-hands Demos

    Product Features

    Knowledge Base

    Zoom

    Meets

    Collaborate

  • CMS

    Netlify

    Shopify

    Magento

    WordPress

    S3

    Dropbox Ent.

  • CRM

    Salesforce

    Zendesk

    Notion

    ServiceNow

    Monday.com

    SysAid

    Hubspot CRM

  • Databases

    Aurora

    Postgres

    DynamoDB

    Neo4j

    Redis

    Snowflake

    MongoDB

    ElasticSearch

    Tableau

    Microsoft SQL Server/Express/Access

    SSMS/SSRS/SSIS

    MySQL

    NoSQL

  • Development & Architecture

    Java

    Spring Boot

    Spring AI

    Python

    TypeScript

    JavaScript

    Go

    React

    Node.js

    Next.js

    Gradle

    Maven

    REST APIs

    GraphQL

    Microservices

    Docker

    Kubernetes

    Git

    GitHub Actions

    Jenkins

    Slack Bolt SDK

    Command Pattern

    Test-Driven Development

    CI/CD Pipelines

    t-SQL

    Visual Basic/VBA

    PHP

    ASP

    HTML

    CSS

    Pascal

  • Design

    Figma

    spline.design

    Sketch

    Canva

    GIMP

    Adobe CS6

    UE5

    Unity

    Blender

    Sketchup

    LucidChart

    Visio

    Paint3D

  • Microsoft Suite

    Azure Active Directory (AD)

    PowerBI

    Sharepoint

    Office 365

    Viva

    Access

    Outlook

    Word

    Excel

    PowerPoint

    OneNote

  • Observability

    PagerDuty

    incident.io

    Splunk

    New Relic

    Datadog

    Grafana

    Kibana

  • Operating Systems (OS)

    Linux

    Ubuntu

    RedHat

    OSX

    iOS

    Android

    Windows

  • OS cli/shell

    Powershell

    bat

    bash

    apt

    yum

    ssh

    winRM

    cygwin

    aws cli

    git

    gh cli

    vim

    UNIX

  • Third Party SaaS

    1Password

    Asana

    BugCrowd

    Fortify-on-Demand

    GitHub

    IntelliJ

    JFrog

    Miro

    PractiTest

    Slack

    Stoplight

    ZenGRC

  • Virtualization

    AWS EC2

    Docker

    Kubernetes

    Azure VM

    vSphere

    Hyper-V

    VMware

    VirtualBox

    G-Suite

    Citrix

    Xen

  • Web Services

    REST APIs

    Apache

    Tomcat

    JBOSS

    nginx

    IIS

    ASP

    .NET

    PHP

    SOAP

    Lua

Education

Education

  • Psychology, Bachelor's Degree, Virginia Tech

    Jul, 2008 - Dec, 2013

    Child Development

    I/O PSYCH

    STAT 1/2/3/4

    JAVA 1/2

    ACIS 1504

    CALC 1/2