Austin Gassert
Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAustin Gassert is a software engineer based in Sunnyvale with eight years of experience building reliable backend systems, currently contributing at Google. He has a steady progression through Proofpoint from intern to Software Engineer II and teaches computer science concepts as a former TA, reflecting both hands-on delivery and mentoring ability. Austin contributes to notable open-source projects in Rust, including backend work on the popular spotify-tui terminal client where he fixed crashes, improved playback/search logic, and applied Rustfmt/Clippy for maintainability. Comfortable working with APIs and system-level client logic, he brings practical attention to code quality and robustness.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Spanish
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (9)
rust10
spotify10
spotify-api10
cli10
terminal-application9
terminal-emulator9
refactoring8
refactor8
testing6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Rigellute/spotify-tui
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 11 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Spotify TUI application, focusing on implementing and refining features related to track playback and search result navigation. Their work included fixing bugs, such as a crash related to terminal size and, implementing new features. They made changes to control the application's interaction with the Spotify API. The user also updated the application code using Rustfmt and Clippy, demonstrating attention to code quality and structure.
terminal-basedrustspotifyterminalmusic
agassert/Whiteboard
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.