Austin Shackelford, founder of AtmoVantage, started building websites in 2011. The first website he built was called “Austin’s Atmosphere” and was for his personal hobby as a weather forecaster. Over the next few years Austin continued to gain experience with website design/development, becoming a self-taught WordPress expert and eventually he started helping those in his community build their own websites. In 2014 Austin started turning his website-building skills into a profitable business, registering as a sole proprietorship in May 2015. To this day AtmoVantage has successfully designed and continues to manage the websites for many local businesses as well as dozens of companies and organizations across the country. Austin is also a professional meteorologist, having graduated in 2013 from Plymouth State University in New Hampshire with a degree in Atmospheric Science and a minor in Geographic Information Systems. In addition to running his website business he also works in Product Management at StormGeo, Inc.