Austin Freel
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Freel is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building consumer-facing and privacy-focused systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic in New York. He has deep product and engineering experience from multiple roles at Meta—ranging from SnapVR and Groups Platform to privacy leadership—and has led teams as a staff engineer and tech lead. As a founder he builds delightful consumer products, notably Weaver, a popular word-ladder game, and launched Weaver Games while co-founding NotePass to explore end-to-end encrypted private AI. His background blends large-scale product delivery with startup agility, shipping cross-platform features and privacy-preserving systems. Austin’s MIT computer science pedigree and a history of viral intern projects hint at a knack for creative, user-centered engineering that scales.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
javascript7
react5
android5
buttons5
ios4
react-native4
sqlite3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
afreel/weaver
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 44 pushes in 18 days
afreel/quickhelp
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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