Austen Strine

Summary

Full-stack developer with 6.5+ years of professional experience across web and mobile. I work best on small, fast-moving teams where I can ship reliable software and help the people around me work more effectively. Most of the projects I'm most proud of are ones that made my coworkers significantly faster, not just ones that shipped.

I've operated without a CTO, coordinated directly with owners and non-technical stakeholders, brought junior devs along, and kept teams steady through rough stretches. The code is important — so is the room it gets written in.

Experience

Full-stack Developer Jan 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

Lumber Marketplace · Full-time

Remote · Colombia, TN

Built a custom regex synthesis engine and library for raw textual data processing, inventory upload, and search keyword harvesting — first of its kind in the industry.
Built Prisma schema generators that synthesized complete class suites (DTOs, entities, validators, Swagger docs) for every model, eliminating the majority of implementation and maintenance overhead across the application.
Rebuilt a poorly implemented core "Product" feature end-to-end, restoring stability and enabling future development.
Wrote a suite of Bash scripts and a companion API for PostgreSQL backups, live-data debugging, and admin operations.
Worked without a CTO, reporting directly to founders while coordinating with engineers, marketing, and sales — effectively acting as an informal CTO for team direction, morale, and focus.
Delivered extremely fast hotfixes for site-breaking issues; consistently unblocked teammates on problems introduced by earlier project direction changes.

Senior Application Developer Nov 2018 – Nov 2023 · 5 yrs 1 mo

GO Green Enterprises · Full-time

South West Utah · On-site

Senior developer on web applications including plumbersstock.com, adamsandco.net, and swplumbing.com (PHP/Laravel, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery).
Sole/lead developer for adamsandco.net and in-house iOS order processing app (Swift, SQLite).
Led development and maintenance of both in-house and third-party search solutions (Elasticsearch, Unbxd).
Helped establish pull-request culture on the team, moving the team away from pushing directly to the dev branch (Bitbucket, GitKraken); routinely mentored junior developers.
Maintained and extended decades-old codebases that were critical to company operations — learned to diagnose and stabilize systems that hadn't been touched in over a decade.
Developed teamwork and cross-functional leadership skills in an environment with a wide diversity of technical approaches and experience levels.

Tech Support Mar 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

Infowest Inc.

Cedar City, UT

Troubleshot Ubiquity wireless ISP equipment at customer and tower levels; multi-brand router setup, PPPoE, IMAP/POP email, VoIP ATA.
Built an internal troubleshooting flow app (WISP-T) that reached beta — available on GitHub.

Additional Experience

Territory Sales Lead — Anderson Merchandisers	Delegation, team coordination, deadline management across two Walmart locations	Jul–Nov 2018
Smart Secure Specialist — Vivint Smart Home	Inbound tech support for smart home and security systems; firmware, billing, 2GIG/Vivint hardware	Oct–Dec 2017
Sales Representative — Gateway Management Group	Ranked #1 nationally for installs; trained and built a junior team, most on-track for leadership at departure	Oct 2013–Jun 2014

Skills

Frontend

Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, MUI, HTML5/CSS3

Backend

Node.js, Nest.js, PHP, Laravel, REST APIs, Prisma

Databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch

Mobile

Swift (iOS), SQLite, Dart / Flutter, Mobile-first design

Infrastructure & Tooling

AWS, Ubuntu / Apache, Bash, Git, CI/CD, cron, artisan

Process & Teamwork

PR coordination, junior dev mentorship, stakeholder communication, fast context-switching in high-pressure environments