Leonard Austin

Professional Trajectory

2025 — Present

Co-founder

Iddio

Building a zero-trust command proxy for AI agents accessing production infrastructure. Real-time command classification, tiered access architecture, and policy-as-code enforcement for the agentic era.

Go Security Infrastructure AI Kubernetes
2023 — Present

Co-founder

Clusterfudge

Building a platform for AI Labs to manage infrastructure complexity and streamline research operations. Suite of tools including Run, Evals, Reports, and Sandboxes for experiment management and GPU utilisation.

Python Go GPU Infrastructure AI
2014 — 2023

Co-founder & CTO

Ravelin

Built an advanced machine learning-driven fraud prevention platform processing real-time behavioural analysis and graph networks. Grew engineering team and led the company through a successful acquisition by Worldpay.

Go Machine Learning AWS GCP Bigtable
2012 — 2014

Tech Lead

Hailo

Led development of a highly available, low latency micro-service architecture running on AWS across three continents. Built with Go using RabbitMQ, NSQ, Cassandra, and Zookeeper.

Go RabbitMQ Cassandra AWS Zookeeper
2004 — 2012

Co-founder

Welford Media

Founded a digital agency specialising in building, designing, optimising and promoting websites for hundreds of businesses across multiple industries.

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Leonard co-founded Ravelin, serving as Chief Technology Officer and leading the development of its advanced machine learning-driven fraud prevention platform through to its successful acquisition by Worldpay. He is also the creator of AppliedAI, a London-based community connecting over a thousand machine learning specialists. Currently, Leonard leads his latest venture, clusterfudge.com — a platform for AI Labs.

A technology entrepreneur at heart, Leonard’s work is grounded in science, holding a Physics BSc (1st Class) from the University of Leicester and a Nanotechnology in Medicine MSc (Distinction) from the University of Oxford. His deep experience in designing and engineering complex software solutions is matched by a leadership style centred on empowerment, leading by example, and collaborative, multi-disciplinary thinking.