Cam Price-Austin • Full-Stack Engineer 💻

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Cam Price-Austin

Full-Stack Software Engineer with 15 years experience.
Currently building the world’s best VC platform at AngelList Venture.
Working remotely from Adelaide, Australia.

Experience

    • Building the platform used by thousands of VCs and investors around the world to raise capital
    • Personally built the deal creation and management app, messaging, email marketing tools, and onboarding flow
    • Mentoring other engineers, coaching, guiding project planning and execution
    • Working remotely with the San Francisco team
    • Stack: React, Typescript, Rails, Elasticsearch
    • Mar 2020 - Present
    • Part of the early engineering team, through a period of rapid growth
    • Responsible for key innovations such as Mixmax 2.0 (the current Gmail interface), Recommended Send Times, Inbox Syncing, and Insights
    • Built and scaled very high-throughput event systems
    • Drove technical and architectural decisions, guided junior engineers
    • Worked remotely with the San Francisco team
    • Stack: Node, React, Typescript, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, AWS
    • May 2016 - Feb 2020 (3 years, 9 months)
    • One of the largest startups in Australia
    • Early employee, led the engineering team during a period of rapid growth (from a valuation of $500k to $100M)
    • Wrote the current software platform (Rails), supporting over 500k users and 150 staff
    • Worked remotely with the Melbourne team
    • Stack: Rails, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
    • Apr 2012 - Apr 2016 (4 years)
    • Built a CRM supporting over 1 million customers for one of Australia’s largest companies
    • Also worked in the data science team, building statistical models for predicting consumer behaviour using R
    • Worked remotely for three years with the Melbourne team
    • Stack: ASP.NET, C#, MSSQL
    • Jul 2007 - Apr 2012 (4 years, 9 months)

Education

    • Winner (2005, 2006, 2007) - Most Outstanding Student in a Degree Programme
    • Dean’s and Chancellor’s Merit Lists
    • 6.92 / 7.00 GPA
    • 2005 - 2007