Austin King
Seattle, North America, United States
Summary
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SeniorAustin King is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 17 years of experience building scalable web and product experiences for Mozilla, Amazon, startups, and early-stage ventures. Now working as a Fractional GTM Engineer in Seattle, he blends hands-on full-stack engineering with growth-focused product and marketing work—leading headless CMS migrations and integrating AI-powered personalization to measurably improve pipeline and revenue. His open-source contributions include meaningful work on Mozilla Accounts (fxa) and identity tooling, reflecting deep experience in authentication, localization, and both frontend and backend systems. Comfortable shipping at large companies and in lean startups, he also builds experimental products—from Vision Pro apps to multiplayer SRE training games—bringing a rare mix of pragmatic execution and creative product instincts.
18 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
git10
javascript10
expressjs10
back-end-development10
python10
django10
css10
authentication10
user-authentication10
cicd10
localization10
front-end-development10
html10
nodejs10
backend10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/playdoh
Jan 2011 - May 2011
PROJECT DEPRECATED (WAS: "Mozilla's Web application base template. Half Django, half awesomeness, half not good at math.")
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily focused on improving the deployment and operational aspects of the Playdoh project. They modified the `update_site.py` script to handle different environments (dev, stage, prod) and project/vendor branches. They also added documentation related to operations, including deployment procedures, web server configurations, and the use of gunicorn. Additionally, the user updated the `update_site.py` script to use git pull.
django
mozilla/mozillians
May 2011 - Dec 2011
Mozilla community directory -- A centralized directory of all Mozilla contributors!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:151 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to the back-end development of the Mozilla community directory, working on features related to user authentication and profile management. They made code changes to integrate the Django-LDAP database library, addressing thread-related issues and integrating external dependencies. The user also worked on design documents and modifications to the models to create a new class called mozilliansPerson to match LDAP work.
centralizedmozilladirectorymozilliansdjango
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