Austin Burgard
Senior Software Engineer at RealWork
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Burgard is a Senior Software Engineer in St. Louis with 7+ years building production full-stack systems, specializing in modern React and TypeScript frontends and developer experience improvements. He has driven migrations (Redux→React Query, Webpack/Esbuild→Vite) that measurably boosted performance and team velocity, and built type-safe SDKs and GraphQL UIs for customer-facing platforms. Austin pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring and process leadership—leading a 15-person team, improving UI test coverage from 25% to 65%, and optimizing large test suites and API performance. Comfortable across the stack, he blends pragmatic refactoring of legacy codebases with modern tooling to deliver reliable, maintainable products. A former Kinesiology major turned full-stack engineer via a coding bootcamp, he brings an uncommon mix of discipline and people-focused collaboration to technical delivery.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Kinesiology and Exercise Science, Bachelor's of Science, Kinesiology and Exercise Science at Truman State UniversityCertificate, Full Stack Engineering, Certificate, Full Stack Engineering at Prime Digital Academy
Github Skills (30)
integrations8
nodejs8
web-application7
bash7
linux7
typescript7
warp7
embedded7
shell7
rust6
macos6
ratatui6
zsh6
react6
parcel6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
awburgard/Bloom-Coffee
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Bloom Coffee is a web application that showcases Kansas City's best coffee shops
Contributions:123 commits, 103 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
coffee-shopsreactshopsshowcasesbloom
awburgard/awburgard.github.io
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 123 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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