Austin Mills

About

Experience

• Head of Platform & SecurityCurrent

  OMEGA POINT (OMPNT) · Dallas, TX

  Sep 2017 – Present

  My teams are responsible for: * Data Pipeline Engineering - securely, reliably, and efficiently ingesting financial data from many different providers, with 1.5T+ datapoints * Data and SRE Development (Go, Python, Ansible, Terraform) - ensuring adherence to best-practice standards and a focus on continuous improvement * Infrastructure Operations - Infrastructure as Code approach, with four-to-five nines of reliability * Security - endpoint, backend, frontend, tooling, AI My personal focuses: * Recruiting, leading and retaining a high-performing Software Engineers, Data Engineers, and SREs, with excellent retention and review results * Guiding software architecture, defining engineering standards, and owning reliability for core processes * Cloud provider vendor management - managing Engineering’s SaaS/PaaS spend across AWS, Databricks, etc. Budgeting, contracting, identifying and prioritizing opportunities for cost optimization and working with other teams to implement improvements, resulting in 20+% cost savings for multiple consecutive quarters without customer impact * Leading technical due-diligence program, both vendor-side and customer-side, with a 100% pass rate, successfully passing review by some of the largest banks and funds in the world * Architecture, governance, and oversight for security processes, and policies, including proactive efforts around emerging LLM AI risks, both internal and vendor/customer * Implementing and leading Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity programs, from risk and impact analysis to leading exercises, improving our ability to restore critical services within the RTO/RPO objectives * Defined and implemented company-wide comprehensive compliance policies and processes, culminating in a clean SOC 2 Type 2 report, reducing sales pipeline time spent on due diligence and unlocking new customer segments * Agile product representative and project management over Data Pipelines, Security, and Operations