Austin Headley

Austin Headley is the founder and CEO of ShopBroker, a Canadian fintech marketplace rebuilding how neighbours buy and sell locally — with protected payments, professional courier delivery, and AI-powered pricing replacing the cash-and-a-parking-lot status quo. Austin's path into fintech is an unusual one. A decade-plus career in marketing, brand strategy, and creative services — and no prior coding background. He founded ShopBroker in 2024 after years of frustration with the meet-a-stranger economics of local selling, and built the entire platform himself using AI coding tools while working full-time: a marketing operator shipping production fintech end-to-end without ever having written software before. That marketing-first lens shows up in how ShopBroker is built. Where most peer-to...