About AustinSoft

AustinSoft is built around a single principle: software and hardware should solve real problems without requiring armies of IT professionals to train and support them. Founded by Glenn L. Austin, AustinSoft brings deep engineering experience to bear on the problems that matter most — security, reliability, and usability — without the overhead that comes with larger organizations.

Glenn Austin began working with computers in 1976, developing some of the first in-store demonstration software for microcomputers. His career has since spanned Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Symantec, Microsoft, and Atlassian, among others. At Apple, Glenn architected the touch-typing on glass system for the iPad keyboard — solving a problem that had stumped the industry. At Atlassian, he founded and built the core mobile security organization underlying their iOS and iPad products.

In the mid-1980s, Glenn developed some of the earliest inexpensive massively parallel computing systems — supporting up to 97 processors — at a time when multiprocessing was reserved for research institutions and organizations with unlimited budgets.

Glenn holds US Patent 10,972,253 for the Virtual Enigma Cipher, a novel cryptographic approach to secure communications. He is currently publishing a series of white papers on mobile and network security, beginning with "Certificate Pinning Done Right: Why Current Practice Pins the Wrong Thing" — challenging accepted practice in certificate pinning and presenting a more robust alternative. Additional papers on enterprise mobile security deployment are in development.

AustinSoft currently operates as a fractional mobile security consulting practice, working with organizations in regulated industries — fintech, healthcare, defense, and government — where the cost of getting security wrong is measured in breaches, not inconvenience. Glenn brings the perspective of someone who has built security systems from the ground up, not just audited them.

AustinSoft also develops its own products, applying the same engineering philosophy to tools that democratize access to professional-grade capabilities. Driver-Coach, currently in development, will be AustinSoft's flagship application — an iOS autocross coaching app that brings post-run data analysis previously available only to professional racing teams to competitive drivers at every level. Using CoreMotion sensor fusion at 100Hz, Driver-Coach provides actionable coaching between runs without distracting the driver during competition — legal, effective, and designed around the principle that data should make drivers faster, not busier.

AustinSoft's shipping products include Day-n-Night, a world daylight clock for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS that renders the Earth in 16-megapixel detail with a smoothly blended terminator — showing the full progression of astronomical twilight and dawn rather than a hard day/night line.