Austin Young
Senior Backend Engineer at PatientIQ
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Young is a Senior Backend Engineer in Denver with six years of experience building scalable, distributed systems using JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Docker, and AWS. He specializes in RESTful and event-driven APIs and has hands-on experience automating complex cloud infrastructure—most notably co-creating Fjord, an open-source framework that exposes Kafka data to web clients via SSE and automates deployment of 40+ AWS resources. At PatientIQ he continues to apply that backend expertise to production systems, and his work blends practical engineering with thoughtful architecture and load-testing. His background in research and analytics informs a data-driven approach to system design and performance tuning.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Linguistics, Communication, French, Bachelor's Degree, Linguistics, Communication, French at University of Colorado BoulderCertificate, Computer Software Engineering, Certificate, Computer Software Engineering at Launch School
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
api-proxy4
rspec3
command-line2
aws2
sse2
kafka2
git1
kafka-cluster1
api-testing1
ruby1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Contributions:294 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
Contributions:118 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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