Austin Burger
Senior Software Engineer at Optum
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Burger is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building production software at Optum and earlier startups, blending hands-on engineering with entrepreneurial experience as a founder and president of small tech ventures. Based in Nashville, he brings a background in chemical engineering turned full-time software development after App Academy, which gives him a practical, systems-oriented approach to complex problems. He obsesses over rockets and software, reflecting a strong curiosity for high-reliability systems and continual learning. At Optum he progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer, demonstrating consistent ownership and impact within a large healthcare technology organization.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at Tennessee Technological UniversityComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at App Academy
Github Skills (21)
aws-s37
vanilla-javascript6
backend6
nodejs6
phaser6
frontend5
pug5
html5
multiplayer5
javascript5
typescript4
browser4
azure4
js4
ecommerce3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
about14sheep/meltdown
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Multiplayer Online Team Co-Op RPG and Mystery Deduction game built on the Phaser 3 HTML5 game engine -- Work together to prevent a meltdown at a nuclear facility. Is everyone who they claim to be?
Contributions:134 commits, 12 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 months
game-enginemultiplayerphaser
about14sheep/about14sheep
Sep 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:69 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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