Larry Augustin
CEO & Co-Founder at Augustin Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLarry Augustin is a seasoned entrepreneur and technology executive with a rare combination of startup founding, board leadership, and large-scale cloud product management experience. As former CEO of VA Linux (SourceForge) and SugarCRM and VP of Applications at AWS, he has repeatedly scaled product-led businesses from open source roots to enterprise revenues and major exits. He’s a longtime open source advocate—one of the contributors to popularizing the term—and launched SourceForge.net, shaping how projects and communities collaborate online. An active investor and board member across successful startups (including GitLab, Pentaho, JBoss, and XenSource), he pairs strategic capital with hands-on operational guidance. More recently he’s been contributing to blockchain-smart-contract ecosystems through CosmWasm and building Brief, an executive intelligence platform that encodes organizational context across decisions. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford, blending deep technical pedigree with decades of commercial product and go-to-market experience.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, BSEE, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of Notre DamePh.D., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
testing10
wpgraphql10
f10
wordpress-graphql10
decentralized-finance10
graphql10
smart-contracts10
rust10
cosmwasm10
dependency-management9
apim9
blockchain9
api9
rust-wasm8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
public-awesome/cw-nfts
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Examples and helpers to build NFT contracts on CosmWasm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 reviews, 35 commits, 16 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Larry primarily contributed to updating dependencies and imports, specifically bumping the CosmWasm (cw) version to v1.1. Their work involved code modifications across multiple files, including those related to querying, message handling, and royalty implementations. The user also addressed clippy warnings and updated the rust-optimizer version, indicating efforts to maintain code quality and optimize the build process for the CosmWasm project.
cosmwasmnft
CosmWasm/cosmwasm
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
WebAssembly Smart Contracts for the Cosmos SDK
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 20 commits, 9 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Larry primarily contributed to the `cosmwasm/cosmwasm` repository by implementing and enhancing bank query functionalities. Their work included adding a bank supply query feature and a helper function for querying supply, as well as updating imports and fixing import errors. Furthermore, the user introduced unit tests to ensure the correct behavior of the implemented bank query helpers, covering scenarios for both existing and non-existing denominations. The user also made updates to related query structures and data types.
cosmos-sdksmart-contractswebassemblyrust
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