**Austin Bennett** designs systems to help move, share, gather insights from data, and develop products efficiently. He is also a cognitive linguist with a focus on multimodal communication. He is passionate about education and sharing knowledge, having reached thousands of people in interactions ranging from one-on-one to large group training. Austin is a Google developer expert (Google Cloud) and an Apache Beam committer; he encourages people to get involved with open source software however sensible. When not on a computing machine, Austin can most often be found on the water in the San Francisco Bay, in the nearby hills on a bike, or on a doubles squash court.