Resume | Austin Dase

Resume

Education

Experience

Skills

Education

Experience

Fundrise - Director of Engineering

January 2026 - PRESENT

Director of Engineering at Fundrise, leading engineering strategy and teams building AI-enabled products including RealAI. Set technical direction and architecture, standardized modern stack (React, Next.js, TypeScript, Vercel) to improve shipping velocity, and built high-performing teams delivering customer-facing products.
  • Set technical direction and architecture decisions for RealAI product.
  • Standardized tech stack (React, Next.js, TypeScript, Vercel, AWS) to improve shipping velocity and code quality.
  • Built and mentored engineering leadership.

Fundrise - Lead Software Engineer | Engineering Manager

January 2022 - December 2025

Led engineering team shipping new products, including RealAI, Fundrise's flagship AI product. Drove product strategy and team structure to match technical requirements; managed all phases from conception through go-to-market.
  • Led team building AI-enabled web applications using modern stack (TypeScript, React, Vue3, Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, AWS).
  • Architected and shipped RealAI from conception to launch, establishing technical roadmap and modern AI/ML practices.
  • Shipped Equitize product from conception to launch, scaling to millions in transaction volume.
  • Drove alignment between engineering, product, and leadership on project scope, technical requirements, and go-to-market strategy.
  • Adopted modern dev tools (Testcontainers, Retool, Auth0, Java 21, JOOQ, GraphQL) to reduce development friction and improve team velocity.

Fundrise - Senior Software Engineer

January 2021 - January 2022

Owned Daily Processing infrastructure handling payments, KYC, and share issuance. Led three major system overhauls: ACH processing architecture rewrite, transfer agent reconciliation automation, and new payment methods integration.
  • Architected new ACH processing system handling $1B+ in annual transaction volume.
  • Shipped Stripe debit funding integration, processing 40k+ transactions in year one.
  • Automated transfer agent reconciliation, eliminating manual shareholding processing and reconciliation errors.
  • Built department-wide test data framework, enabling rapid local development iteration across engineering.

Fundrise - Software Engineer

November 2019 - January 2021

Built IRA and Short Term Notes products from inception. Owned auto-invest scheduling and KYC system development, delivering core infrastructure for new product lines.
  • Shipped IRA product from conception to production, establishing new asset class offering.
  • Designed and shipped Short Term Notes backend processing system.
  • Streamlined KYC and investment approval workflows, reducing approval time and processing errors.

Travelers - Associate Software Developer

April 2019 - November 2019

Built internal tools and ML pipeline systems. Developed deployment execution management platform using Java, Spring Boot, and Python.
  • Shipped internal tools and platforms using Java, Spring Boot, Python.
  • Built ML pipeline components working with SQLServer and Oracle data systems.

Travelers - Senior Software Programmer

April 2017 - April 2019

Owned development of internal applications and tools using Java and Spring Boot. Led modernization effort, migrating legacy systems to modern tech stack.
  • Migrated legacy Perl tooling suite to modern Python and Java/Spring Boot applications, reducing maintenance overhead and improving developer experience.
  • Shipped Python and Java applications replacing legacy Perl systems across internal tools.

Travelers - Software Programmer

March 2016 - April 2017

Developed internal tools and systems using Java, Python, and SQL. Owned release process and production deployment execution.
  • Shipped internal tools using Perl, Java, Spring Boot.
  • Owned release process, executing nightly production deployments as part of deployment train.

Skills

Here's some of my primary professional skills.

AWS
5 / 5
Java
5 / 5
Python
5 / 5
Machine Learning
4 / 5
Spring
4 / 5
MySQL
4 / 5
Postgres
4 / 5
Auth0/Okta
3 / 5
Stripe
3 / 5
TypeScript
3 / 5
Vue
3 / 5
Databricks
3 / 5