Austin Rotondo

Build technical foundations for growth-stage startups and small companies to empower 10X revenue growth, reduce costs, and eliminate technical debt. Transform technology strategy, infrastructure, software, and security while structuring tech organizations that create scalable, sustainable, and easy-to-maintain systems infrastructure. Understand and prioritize stakeholder and contributor goals to achieve optimal outcomes. Communicate business value of complex tech solutions with non-technical executives and stakeholders. Create, grow, and transform tech staff into high-performing teams. Special expertise in Series A/B and high-growth. Industries: software, health tech, biotech, fintech Experience has taught me that you can get smart, motivated, right-skilled people to solve any problem if you ensure they are empowered, aligned, and connected to the "why" of what we're doing. My first priority is identifying the outcome we must deliver. Next, I put together the right team to do that. Then I take care of the team, supporting their individual careers and goals and making sure they have what they need to succeed. --CAREER HIGHLIGHTS-- ➤ Established company’s 1st Tech Ops vision and strategy, integrating technology, IT, infrastructure, SRE, and InfoSec to support up to 10X revenue growth, eliminate tech debt, and transform systems reliability. ➤ Developed and led cost optimization strategy, delivering $1.2M annual cost reduction (68%) while supporting 10X site growth, ensuring long-term scalability without compromising performance. ➤ Led development of modular cloud infrastructure for early-stage startup in heavily regulated pharma industry, enabling 1st customer sale by delivering scalable and compliant AWS-based platform in <6 months using IaC. ➤ Transformed infrastructure and software components to support multi-product enterprise architecture, enabling faster development cycles, reduced maintenance overhead, and improved operational efficiency. ➤ Supported real-time credit decisions by architecting ML and data streaming pipelines to leverage legacy SQL. ➤ Designed and implemented enterprise-wide information security program, enhancing security posture and ensuring compliance with industry regulations, mitigating business risk. ➤ Designed and implemented Zero Trust IT infrastructure with no on-prem services, eliminating legacy dependencies and enabling seamless scalability and security. **I'm also fun to work with**