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austin r00ks

software engineer

Curious and persistent, building quality products.

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I am an experienced software engineer passionate about learning and building performant, correct applications. I've been recognized as a individual performer and as a team player.

Outside of programming for work, I enjoy programming for fun, reading, tinkering with Raspberry Pis and surfing Lake Michigan when time and weather and children allow.

w0rk experience

  1. Company
    Northwestern Mutual
    Software Engineer
    I work on the client website building new products, supporting legacy systems, and contributing to interal libraries to support and enhance product development.

    I was recognized as the individual contributor of Q2 2023 of Northwestern Mutual’s web and mobile engineers for having decreased the entire client website’s LCP by ~500ms.

    Individually built a custom SSG framework to be used with vanilla vite configs for prerendering static apps to improve apps' performance as the org transitioned to React frontends served from S3.
    React Redux TypeScript Express Graphql
  2. Company
    The Peach Software Company
    Owner, Software Engineer
    Previous work includes converting a headless JS app into a Qwik/ Qwik-City (TypeScript) frontend and an Actix (Rust) backend for web and native mobile clients to consume.

    The frontend scores 100 performance score across every Lighthouse metric on both web and mobile. The backend test coverage is over 65%.
    Rust Actix TypeScript Qwik Postgres
  3. Company
    Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis
    Software Developer/ Administrator
    I built and maintained internal web apps (Flask and Django) for critical agency wide functions, e.g. critical incidents, employee management.
    Python Django Flask Postgres HTMX
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