Auston Bunsen
Founder at AccessGrid.com
Auston Bunsen
Founder at AccessGrid.com
Miami, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and CEO
2024 - Current
Building the API that opens doors, literally.
Co-founder and CTO
2019 - 2024
Co-founded QuickNode and was its Chief Technology Officer for three years, before moving into product for the remaining two. Oversaw the growth of the company through multiple product launches, major partnerships, and the evolving blockchain ecosystem. Listed as one of Y Combinators Top 100 most valuable companies. Backed by Seven Seven Six, 10T, Tiger Global, SoftBank, Lightspeed, Y Combinator, SOMA Capital, Arrington Capital, along with over a dozen leading startup founders and active angels.
Comprehensive blockchain platform to learn, build, and scale Web3 apps with reliable APIs & tools across 50+ chains.
Raised $101,900,000.00 from IPOSharks.
Senior Software Engineer
2020 - 2021
Full stack engineer building and serving the strongest community of entrepreneurs.
First Round Angel Track is a community of operators and founders looking to develop their skills and identities as early-stage investors.
Head Instructor
2016 - 2018
Developed coding bootcamp curriculum, led lecture on topics ranging from data types and algorithms to css and html, created applications to help gauge student progress and assisted in job placement. Students that went through my program now work at companies like Amazon, Microsoft, QuickNode and more.
CTO
2012 - 2014
Co-led company from $80m to $160m in <12 months. Growing team from 2 to 12 software engineers to support multiple warehouses, shipping up to hundreds of thousands of items per day. Oversaw the growth of the company through major partnerships with Groupon and Google as well as warehouse footprint expansion. Covered by news organizations like The New York Times, NBC, ABC, Fox News and Entrepreneur magazine.
CTO
2009 - 2010
Web Developer; grew the revenue to millions of dollars per month with 1 other person. Became CTO; grew the team from 2 to 14 in 4 months.
Lead Web Developer
2008 - 2009
Startup - Employee number one. Developed initial release of dashboard (flagship product). Created company website & managed marketing outreach - through blogging, event sponsorship, twitter & press coverage of the product.
Web Developer
2007 - 2008
Startup - Fully developed (ui + backend) & maintained order management solution, using cutting edge technology. Developed and maintained several retail websites. Managed over $200,000 monthly ad budget which included Yahoo, Google, MSN & Ask.
Web Developer
2006 - 2007
Startup - Developed platform to collect, organize and manage leads from several subsidiaries/web properties of Closed First.
Front-End Web Developer
2005 - 2006
Contract/Intern - Developed custom interface for international engineering team on top of JotSpot (prior to & during Google Acquisition) as an alternative to Sharepoint server installation.