Austin Ek
Software Engineer at ABC Supply Co
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Ek is a software engineer based in Chicago with a decade of hands-on experience building and supporting cloud-native infrastructure and applications. Currently at ABC Supply Co, he brings production-grade DevOps and backend skills honed at BMW Technology Corporation, where he helped launch the My BMW app and managed 100+ microservices on Azure with Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, and Elasticsearch. Comfortable across cloud tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and on-call rotations, he pairs systems-level rigor with a practical focus on reliability and observability. A Computer Science junior at UIC, he also has roots in Android development and hands-on IT support, including teaching programming to youth. Known for strong communication and teamwork, he enjoys translating complex operational challenges into maintainable engineering practices. Austin’s blend of enterprise-scale deployment experience and early product-level feature work gives him a rare perspective from device UI to cloud infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Junior, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Junior at University of Illinois at Chicago
Github Skills (50)
terraform10
terraform-provider10
azure-resource-manager10
resource-manager10
azure10
pocket9
kotlin9
android9
robot9
issue-tracking9
podcast8
android-library8
scrolling8
robotics8
smooth8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chicagoedt/robocode
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
Teaching programming & the fundamentals of building a robot
Contributions:344 commits, 22 PRs, 223 pushes in 7 months
roboticspythonteachingfundamentalsrobot
austin-ek/terraform-provider-azurerm
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managerazureterraform-provider
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