Austin Houk
Senior Software Engineer at Jenius Bank
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Houk is a pragmatic Senior Software Engineer in Phoenix with nine years of experience building scalable full-stack applications and leading small teams. He has moved from structural engineering into software, bringing a rigorous, systems-oriented approach to designing reliable backends and responsive frontends. Austin built GraphQL APIs with Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS and PostgreSQL, and shipped React+TypeScript SPAs and component libraries for multi-tenant products and white-labeled theming. He mentors junior engineers, drives code quality through reviews, and partners with product teams to turn complex domain needs into testable technical stories. Notably, his background in civil engineering informs a methodical attention to safety, correctness, and maintainability in production systems. Currently at Jenius Bank, he focuses on secure, scalable financial systems while continuing to champion pragmatic engineering tradeoffs.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (26)
emmet9
jquery-plugin9
jquery8
designer8
uml7
frontend6
mindmap6
text-editing6
ejs6
summernote6
wysiwyg6
mongoose6
markdown6
table-of-contents6
documentation5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
houkah26/finance-backend
Jul 2017 - Apr 2021
Finance App Backend (Node, Mongo, and Express)
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 9 months
ejsexpressjsmongonode-jsexpress
houkah26/mern-authentication
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 64 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
reactnode-expressexpressjsmongofull-stack
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