About

Austin Mease is a skilled software engineer with a passion for building applications that positively impact users' lives. He is committed to writing clean code that stands the test of time and takes a long-term approach to development. Austin has 5.86 years of relevant experience and has worked on various projects, including low-level memory optimization for distributed systems, scientific software development for MRI imaging and radiation dosimetry, and team lead positions working on networking software for the military. Currently working as a Sr. Software Engineer at Roblox, Austin is responsible for cross-platform and full-stack development. He has improved and encouraged cloud-based development and implemented strategies for new developers to think of their game as always-in-the-cloud. He has also made an IDE faster and more responsive by identifying unnecessary UI locking and bottlenecks and developing a strategy for resolving and preventing these issues in the future. Additionally, he has parallelized pre-existing processes to increase developer efficiency and implemented user sandboxing with CURL to improve security and stability. In his past roles, Austin has worked at Rockwell Collins as a Software Engineer Team Lead, where he has architect scalable tools and methodologies for Cucumber/Gherkin and automated VSphere/VMWare deployment for performance testing. He has also worked as a Lab Assistant and Software Developer (Python) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he developed an eye-tracking application for lab use and integrated it with motion sensors. Austin has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is proficient in various technologies, including Python, Java, Microservices, SDET, Integration, Backend, and UI. With his extensive experience and expertise in software engineering, Austin is a valuable asset to any organization.