Austin French
Senior Product Engineer · Forward-Deployed · New York, NY
I build software and then stand next to the people using it.
Eight years of production work, mostly Rails, lately TypeScript and applied AI, from a Super Bowl check-in line to a client's conference room.
Selected work
All work- Tenex 2026 Three client projects at once, as the lead engineer on each.
- CompanyCam 2023-25 Monolithic Rails app: RAG pipeline, generative AI features, AI agents.
- Backlit at the Super Bowl seasonal, 2018-26 Seven seasons on contract, ending as the only engineer on site for Super Bowl LX.
- CoverMyMeds 2021-23 Launched nine drug brands, then built the tool that lets non-engineers do it.
- austn.net's GPU tools 2025-26 Nine AI tools I ran on one GPU at home, open to anyone.
- TinyRails 2025 Rails, rebuilt small, to see what it's really doing.
Now
What I'm up toI'm looking for my next role: forward deployed, AI engineering, or senior product engineering.