People Technology Architect · Dallas, TX

I build the systems People teams run on.

Recruiter-turned-engineer, now an AI-native systems engineer and architect who builds the systems People teams run on.

A decade from technical recruiting through People Analytics leadership to hands-on platform engineering: governed HR data warehouses, HRIS and recruiting platforms, critical integrations, and production agentic systems. Audit-ready data infrastructure, shipped at startup speed.

Austin Rose, People Technology Architect

By the numbers

5 weeks
From first commit to a production HR data warehouse
100+
Canonical metrics in the certified layer
81
Agent and skill deployments for People workflows, as AI program champion for a 50-person People team
23,000+
Employees served by the analytics function he built
10 yrs
Recruiting, People Analytics, platform engineering

Selected work

All work →

The arc

Recruiting → analytics leadership → platform engineering

Most People Technology is built by engineers who have never run the process they're modeling, or specified by practitioners who can't build. I spent a decade inside recruiting and HR operations: ATS implementations, Workday business processes, funnel instrumentation, before moving into analytics leadership and then into engineering. So I arrive already knowing what a metric means, who will argue about it, and which workflow breaks if the data is wrong.

The advantage is compression: requirements gathering, data modeling, governance design, and change management sit in one head instead of across three teams and two quarters of translation. It's why a governed warehouse shipped in five weeks, and why the systems get adopted after launch instead of shelved.

  1. Mar 2026 to Present

    People Technology Architect · Airtable

    Remote

    Architect and builder of the People Data Warehouse and the org's AI governance program: governed HR data models, agent-first consumption, and the check-in redesign shipped company-wide.

  2. Jan 2023 to Mar 2026

    Director, People Analytics & AI · The Aspen Group

    Chicago / Dallas (Remote)

    Founded People Analytics for a 23,000-employee healthcare enterprise: forecasting that moved hiring plans, a governed Workday reporting estate, and standards for 80+ analysts.

  3. Feb 2021 to Jan 2023

    Senior Recruiter, Data Analytics · Chime

    Chicago

    Scaled a data analytics org from 16 to 59 while instrumenting the funnel itself, the point where recruiting stopped being a process I ran and started being a system I measured.

  4. May 2020 to Feb 2021

    Senior Recruiter, Software Engineering · Vineti

    San Francisco

    Owned an end-to-end Greenhouse implementation: requirements, workflow configuration, rollout, and a candidate-experience feedback loop.

  5. Sep 2019 to Apr 2020

    Recruiter, Software Engineering · NextRoll

    San Francisco

    Redesigned interview processes against SLAs and built the headcount growth models hiring plans were argued over.

  6. Sep 2018 to Sep 2019

    Global Recruiter, Tech & Product · Delivery Hero SE

    Berlin

    Partnered with IT on a global Workday Recruiting implementation, scoping business processes for the Product org, and first exposure to HRIS at enterprise scale.

What's next

Open to senior IC and leadership roles in People Technology, plus advisory work.

If you're standing up People data infrastructure, replatforming HRIS, or trying to make agentic systems safe enough to put in front of an HR team: that's the work I do.