Austen Frostad
Software Engineer at Frostad Studio
Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAusten Frostad is a Senior Frontend Engineer with six years of experience building user-centered web and full-stack applications across utilities, solar, manufacturing, shipping, and finance. Based in the Spokane–Coeur d’Alene area, he blends front-end frameworks (React, Vue, Astro, Framer) with pragmatic backend work and has modernized legacy .NET systems and event-driven architectures. Austen excels at bridging design and engineering—leading UI/UX research, facilitating stakeholder architecture discussions, and shipping reliable features end-to-end with improved observability and CI/CD. He contributes to notable repositories like IntelliTect/EssentialCSharp, focusing on code organization and maintainability, reflecting a discipline for clean, well-documented projects. Outside of product work he runs Frostad Studio crafting high-performance marketing sites and pursues hardware DIY projects (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Hackintosh), bringing a maker’s curiosity to software problems. He’s also a ski instructor and violin teacher, habits that inform his patient, collaborative mentorship style.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Physical Sciences, Physical Sciences at edXComputer Science, Computer Science at Eastern Washington University
Github Skills (6)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
testing8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
IntelliTect/EssentialCSharp
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
This project contains the source code for the book Essential C# by Mark Michaelis (Addison-Wesley).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 commits, 10 PRs, 50 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Austen primarily contributed to the "intellitect/essentialcsharp" repository by fixing formatting issues, rearranging listings to match the manuscript, and updating namespaces. Their work focused on refactoring existing code, adding new project files for chapters and tests, and renumbering listings. These changes indicate a focus on code organization and ensuring the project aligns with the accompanying book's structure.
dotnetessentialc-sharpcsharpaddison
IntelliTect/LooffCarousel.RingTargetDetector
Aug 2022 - Dec 2023
An Arduino project for detecting successful tosses of rings and rewarding the throwers with LED and sound feedback
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 63 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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