About Me

The short version: I've spent 16+ years keeping computers from catching fire and making sure the humans using them can get their work done.

Overview

I'm an IT leader with deep expertise in identity and access management, cloud infrastructure, SaaS integrations, and network security. My career has taken me from K-12 school districts to national retail brands to food manufacturing — each one teaching me that good IT is invisible IT.


I specialize in building systems that scale and securing environments that used to have no security posture at all. I've worn every hat: help desk tech, network admin, data integration engineer, operations manager, and now a one-person IT department standing up an entire technology ecosystem from scratch.


I'm based in Lorena, TX and currently serving as IT Manager at Sendero Provisions Co. in Waco.

Current Stack

Google Workspace Okta Slack Kandji Unifi Intune Entra ID Azure M365 PowerShell Python JavaScript Cisco Meraki BlueTally Action1 Dropbox BlueFletch

Contact

The best way to reach me is by email at austincrider@gmail.com. I'm based in Lorena, TX (Waco metro area).