Austen Collins is a software engineering leader with a firm focus on applying technology to create business value, elegant products and customer experiences. Austen is the creator of the Serverless Framework, a popular tool for building applications rapidly with the minimal expenditures and operational overhead, by leveraging new cloud technologies like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions and more. In 2015, he founded Serverless Inc., which creates developer tools and infrastructure for serverless architectures. He lives in San Francisco, CA.