Austin Wise
Software Engineer at Google
California, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Wise is a seasoned software engineer with 18 years of experience building embedded and backend systems, currently applying AI techniques at Google from his base in California. He has deep low-level and systems expertise—contributing to the .NET runtime and Wasmtime WebAssembly bindings to improve memory management and error handling—and a strong background in robotics and embedded controllers from a decade designing wafer-handling software at Brooks Automation. Austin blends practical tooling and automation skills (code generators, static analysis, visual scripting) with UI and high-DPI improvements in consumer tools like XML Notepad, showing he can move between embedded constraints and user-facing polish. He’s comfortable driving cross-cutting improvements that reduce bugs and speed development, and often surfaces hidden reliability wins through tests and protocol-safe bindings.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
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dotnet10
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ui-design10
netframework10
windows-forms10
binding10
asp-net10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/runtime
Jul 2015 - Jan 2023
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 41 commits, 50 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to the .NET runtime project, focusing on low-level improvements and bug fixes. Their work involved resolving issues within the coreclr and coreclr codebases, as evidenced by their commit messages. The changes include correcting printing errors, addressing assertions related to profiler configurations, and cleaning up code and comments related to BlockCopy refactoring. These contributions are essential for maintaining the stability and performance of the .NET runtime.
dotnetruntimelinuxcsharpxamarin
microsoft/XmlNotepad
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
XML Notepad provides a simple intuitive User Interface for browsing and editing XML documents.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Austin primarily focused on enhancing the UI and improving the high DPI support for the XML Notepad application. Their contributions include modifying the UI layout, enabling High DPI support by adjusting the application's manifest and scaling modes, and implementing specific DPI-aware adjustments for forms and controls. They also made adjustments to the display of scroll bars and corrected font settings to ensure a consistent user experience across different display resolutions.
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