Austin Kindred
Staff Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Kindred is a Staff Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience building and scaling high-visibility web applications, currently shaping Reddit Answers after a multi-year tenure driving Eats integrations and observability at Uber. He specializes in modern frontend architecture and full-stack reliability, blending React/GraphQL expertise with strong observability and developer tooling to improve performance and incident response. Known for leading technical direction on cross-product features—like embedding Eats inside the Uber rides experience—he excels at turning complex architectural challenges into pragmatic, scalable solutions for large user bases. Based in Washington, D.C., he brings a systems-minded approach forged in both defense and consumer domains, from Software Defined Radio and manufacturing systems to high-scale consumer products.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (36)
monitoring10
observability10
dashboard10
visualization10
postgresql10
mysql10
multipart10
grafana10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
business-intelligence10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
influxdb10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
akindr/fantasy-football
Dec 2021 - Dec 2025
Contributions:1 review, 28 PRs, 26 pushes in 4 years
akindr/react-vis
Dec 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 7 branches in 5 months
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