Joel Austin is a front-end-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building user-facing products at scale, currently contributing to xAI after several impactful years at Meta/Facebook. He specializes in React and GraphQL-powered interfaces and has a history of shipping features that reached millions of users, while also implementing back-end services in Hack, Node.js, and Python when needed. His background spans fast-paced industry settings from Tesla battery systems to Facebook’s redesigned UX, giving him a rare blend of HCI-informed product sense and practical full-stack delivery. Joel holds an MS in Information Science with a Human-Computer Interaction focus and consistently collaborates with designers and data scientists to turn complex data into intuitive visualizations. Comfortable communicating technical needs to non-technical stakeholders, he has built inventory and analytics systems that bridged lab workflows and web experiences. Based in Redwood City, he brings both production-scale front-end expertise and interdisciplinary curiosity to AI engineering work.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Systems at University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
Master of Science - MS, Information Science, Human Computer Interaction, Master of Science - MS, Information Science, Human Computer Interaction at University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information
Contributions:49 PRs, 128 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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