Austen Castberg
Software Engineer at Square
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAusten Castberg is a software engineer with nine years of experience building consumer-facing mobile and backend features, currently contributing at Square from Austin, Texas. He has a strong Android background demonstrated by meaningful contributions to the widely used Mixpanel Android SDK—adding richer push notification support, silent pushes, and robust bug fixes for notification handling. Prior roles at Mixpanel and an integrations internship at Credera reflect a blend of analytics-focused product work and systems integration experience. A UT Austin computer science graduate, he pairs solid engineering fundamentals with pragmatic feature delivery and a knack for improving developer-facing libraries.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (10)
android-sdk10
sdk10
apple-push-notifications10
android10
push-notifications10
analytics10
java9
testing9
javas9
firebase8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mixpanel/mixpanel-android
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Official Android Tracking Library for Mixpanel Analytics
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:117 commits, 45 PRs, 112 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Austen primarily focused on enhancing the Mixpanel Android tracking library's push notification capabilities. They implemented support for new notification fields like subtitle, image URLs, and badges, alongside relevant unit tests. The user also worked on fixing various bugs, particularly related to sticky notifications and large icon handling. Moreover, they contributed to notification action tracking and activity routing, alongside adding support for silent pushes.
analyticsmixpanel-sdkandroidsdkmixpanel
aecast/Java
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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