Austin Crim
Senior Software Engineer at Workiva
Huxley, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Crim is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building web-first tools and mentoring engineers across enterprise and startup environments. Now at Workiva after multiple roles at Principal Financial Group and fast-moving product teams, he focuses on practical, maintainable software and developer enablement. Austin contributes to prominent open-source tooling—adding web framework integrations and ESM-compatible server functions to the Firebase CLI—and has shipped experimental support for SvelteKit and Astro. Based in Huxley, Iowa, he pairs a hands-on full-stack skill set with a teacher’s mindset, often turning platform gaps into reusable developer experiences. His background in technical support and community-facing projects informs a pragmatic approach to debugging and cross-team collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Software Development, Associate's degree, Software Development at Indian Hills Community CollegeCertificate, Bible/Biblical Studies, Certificate, Bible/Biblical Studies at Emmaus Bible College
Github Skills (10)
web-framework10
javascript10
nodejs10
firebase10
astrojs9
sveltekit9
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
cicd4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/firebase-tools
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
The Firebase Command Line Tools
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 4 commits, 12 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Austin contributed to the Firebase tools repository by implementing support for web framework integrations. They added functionality for handling `file:` dependencies in package.json for web frameworks. The user also generated ESM-compatible server functions for web frameworks and integrated experimental support for SvelteKit and Astro web frameworks. Further contributions include bug fixes for Astro config loading.
firebasecommand-line-toolscli
austincrim/udemy-courses
Oct 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:21 PRs, 65 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 6 months
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