Austin Ziegler
Staff Software Developer at Northern Labs
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Ziegler is a staff software developer and engineering leader with 17+ years of experience building cross-functional teams and delivering scalable systems across retail, VPN, and platform backends. He combines hands-on implementation—shipping code in 20+ languages and maintaining widely used Ruby libraries—with strategic architecture and humane hiring that emphasises attitude, aptitude, and growth. At Kinetic Commerce and Northern Labs he drove platform design, API strategy, and transitions to high-concurrency stacks like Elixir/GraphQL while mentoring engineers into leaders. An active open-source maintainer, he has contributed to projects such as Hugo and the Sentry Elixir SDK and helps keep tools like MacPorts and chezmoi robust for diverse environments. He balances deep technical breadth (C++, Ruby, Elixir, Go, Rust) with pragmatic product delivery, from billing engines to multi-service mobile backends. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a literary mind to engineering—shaping teams and systems with an eye for clarity, imagination, and long-term maintainability.
17 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s English, Bachelor’s English at Union Institute & University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
dependency-management10
markdown10
git10
hugo10
sentry10
package-management10
back-end-development10
elixir10
configuration-management10
bash10
templater10
template-engine10
dotfile10
go10
ports10
Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
twpayne/chezmoi
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:344 reviews, 11 commits, 70 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to improving the functionality and features of the `chezmoi` configuration management tool. Their work included fixing bugs related to 1Password CLI 2.0.0 and enhancing its support, including adding an account lookup table. They also added the `outputList` template function and incorporated features for per-template configurable delimiters. Moreover, the user implemented various improvements to template functionality and fixed issues with `fromIni`.
diverseyadmdotfilesshellzsh
getsentry/sentry-elixir
Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
The official Elixir SDK for Sentry (sentry.io)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to the core Elixir SDK for Sentry. They focused on improving the library's dependency management, updating dependencies like Hackney, and enhancing the logging capabilities. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug by implementing the ability to configure Sentry log levels. The changes also included simplifying a `get_config` call and removing unnecessary code.
sentry-iosentryelixirsdkelixir-sdk
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