Austin Malerba
Senior Software Engineer at Target
El Paso, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Malerba is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building web apps and developer-friendly libraries, currently driving engineering at Target from El Paso, Texas. A Rochester Institute of Technology computer science graduate with a 3.95 GPA, he blends strong academic grounding with practical full‑stack chops. He focuses on developer experience and front-end polish, demonstrated by his work on a decentralized forum for Polygon where he implemented comment UIs, authentication, and integration with react-query, wagmi, and hardhat. Comfortable across mobile and web stacks (Ionic and modern React tooling), he champions clean DX and shipping usable, production-ready features. Active in open source and technical writing, he shares work and experiments across GitHub, CodeSandbox, Medium, and Twitter. Notably, he pairs enterprise-scale engineering at Target with hands-on crypto/web3 front-end projects in his spare time.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.95, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.95 at Rochester Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
javascript10
nextjs10
react10
wagmi10
chakra-ui10
hardhat9
ethersjs9
react-query9
blockchain7
solidity7
django-rest-framework6
react-hooks6
django6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pointer-gg/comments-with-polygon
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Build and deploy a decentralized forum to polygon
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 13 PRs, 23 pushes in 20 days
Contributions summary:Austin primarily worked on the front-end, enhancing the user interface and integrating with the back-end functionality of a decentralized forum. They implemented features, including comment rendering, a comment editor, and authentication. Additionally, the user set up the basic structure of the application including react-query and wagmi to support interacting with the smart contract on Polygon, while also integrating with the hardhat development environment.
ethereumforumblockchainweb3decentralized
malerba118/portfolios-hosting
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:120 commits in 11 months
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