Austin Ray
Software Engineer at Google
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Ray is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack and back-end systems, currently contributing at Google from Raleigh, NC. A dual CS and Mathematics graduate, he brings rigorous problem-solving to production engineering, with prior roles at Cisco and university tech teams that span both product and operational responsibilities. He is an active open-source contributor to projects like neomutt, where he improved notmuch integration and mailbox UX, showing an attention to both low-level maildir synchronization and user-facing details. Comfortable in large-company engineering environments and open-source communities alike, he combines systems-level thinking with practical feature delivery. Colleagues can expect a detail-oriented engineer who equally values correctness and a smoother user experience.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics at University of North Carolina at WilmingtonHigh School, High School at Apex High School
English, German
Github Skills (7)
c1710
c1110
backend9
back-end-development9
maildir9
configuration-management7
api-design6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
neomutt/neomutt
Oct 2017 - Oct 2022
✉️ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks -- IRC: #neomutt on irc.libera.chat
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 115 commits, 86 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to the notmuch integration, a feature for NeoMutt to interact with the notmuch mail indexer. Their contributions included implementing and refactoring functionalities related to query windows, tag modifications, and synchronization with the maildir backend. They improved the user experience through fixes for bugs, such as allowing users to utilize mailbox descriptions and providing more accurate message counts within the interface. The user also added functionality to show more information in the sidebar and browser interfaces.
notmuchpop3ncursesirc-serverimap
Austin-Ray/Hexis
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:76 commits, 36 PRs, 74 pushes in 5 months
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