About ASpires

• 🎉 I get to work for Fastly helping make the web a little better through amazing people like you
• 💥 I built this site using Eleventy on Glitch
• 🌈 Thanks for reading!

Find me on the internet at:

• GitHub
• Threads
• Linkedin
• Twitter
• Mastodon

I've been lucky enough to spend the majority of my career helping to grow communities and tools that improve the web. I've worked at small startups, rising startups, and companies that started as small startups, then scaled and became public companies.

If you need a high-res headshot, this photo is circa 2023.

If you need a formal bio:

Austin Spires is the Sr. Director of Developer Support at Fastly, where he focuses on delighting the millions of developers who use Fastly every day. He's worked on developer tools and customer happiness for over 10 years and frequently speaks at conferences and meetups. Before Fastly, Austin worked in sales and support at GitHub, where he helped lead customer onboarding and ran technical sales at Finix Payments. Previously living in Texas, Oklahoma, and San Francisco, Austin now resides in Denver. He spends his free time gardening and keeping up with his one-year-old son.