Austin Voecks is a pragmatic systems engineer with 11 years building distributed storage, networking, and FreeBSD-based solutions, now contributing to Qumulo’s NFS implementation and Tier 3 support. He blends deep low-level expertise—from kernel/userspace work and asynchronous programming to performance tuning—with product-facing skills in API and architecture design demonstrated during scale-out data mobility projects at Dell EMC. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the widely used ShellCheck static analyzer and expanded cross-language test coverage on smaller projects, reflecting a taste for robust tooling and language diversity (Python, Bash, Haskell). Based on Bainbridge Island, he pairs hands-on engineering and troubleshooting with unexpected pursuits like leading dives as a PADI Divemaster, a hint at calm leadership under pressure.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Western Washington University
ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 14 PRs, 40 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to improving the static analysis tool `ShellCheck`. Their work focused on enhancing the accuracy and functionality of the tool. They implemented fixes related to issues like echo flag handling, literal pattern matching in case statements, and the handling of grep flags. The user also added a new flag to include only certain warnings.
Contributions summary:Austin's primary contribution centers around expanding the functionality of the `is-thirteen` repository. Their work includes adding support for thirteen in various languages, encompassing both code and test cases. This involves modifying both the core logic file (`index.js`) and the test suite (`test.js`). The user demonstrates a good understanding of extending the project's capabilities across various linguistic representations of the number thirteen.
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Austin Voecks - Member Of Technical Staff III at PADI