Austin Huang
Software Engineer at Google
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolAustin Huang is a software engineer with a decade of practical experience across frontend, backend, and DevOps, currently contributing to Google's Compute Frontend team. He builds user-focused web interfaces and scalable backend services—recent projects range from privacy-focused browser extension UI work to adding dictionary integrations and plugin fixes in the SearXNG metasearch engine. Austin has delivered full-stack educational platforms and CMS tooling for NYU and engineered competition-grade backend plugins and automation for global CTF infrastructure. Comfortable across Python, JS frameworks, cloud deployment, and CI/CD, he pairs hands-on coding with stakeholder collaboration in academic and research settings. Based in Kirkland, WA, he blends open-source curiosity with production delivery, often tackling small-but-impactful UX and integration details that others overlook.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'études collégiales, Pure & Applied Science, Diplôme d'études collégiales, Pure & Applied Science at Marianopolis CollegeMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at New York UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at St. George's School of MontréalBachelor of Science - BS, Statistics and Computer Science (Joint Major), Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics and Computer Science (Joint Major) at McGill University
Chinese, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
html10
webext10
apim10
search-engine10
javascript10
webextension10
api10
metasearch10
python10
browser-extension10
orvidius9
firefox8
chromium8
bot-framework6
nodejs6
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
May 2020 - May 2021
A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily focused on updating the web extension's UI elements and instance lists. They modified `popup.html` and `options.html`, adding and updating available privacy-friendly instances for various services. Furthermore, the user updated instance lists in `background.js` and relevant helper files to include new or revised options. This includes updates to instance lists for Nitter, Invidious, and Bibliogram.
youtubechromiuminstagramgoogle-mapsfirefox
searxng/searxng
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 4 days
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the SearXNG project. They focused on correcting pathing issues for plugins and favicons, and refactored the code to merge a "plugins" endpoint back into "static." Additionally, the user added integration for the Jisho.org dictionary, including the necessary API integration and data formatting. These changes involved modifying Python code and HTML templates, indicating a focus on server-side functionality and template rendering.
pythonmetasearchmetasearch-engineaggregatessearxng
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