Kai Austin
Instructor at Computer Systems Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Austin is a pragmatic software engineer and instructor with 13 years of experience building full‑stack web applications, teaching web and mobile prototyping, and founding two startups focused on productivity and matching. Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, Kai has designed APIs, data models, deployment pipelines, and UX for production systems—most recently shipping a travel planning platform and running a novel matchmaking hub. He pairs hands‑on technical work (Node.js, MySQL, Vue, Angular migrations) with classroom experience, translating complex concepts into teachable workflows for diverse learners. Outside typical engineering roles he’s applied research and narrative skills to create immersive, self-scripted historical and true‑crime tours, showing a curious blend of technical rigor and storytelling.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringJapanese Language and Literature, Japanese Language and Literature at Genki Japanese Language and Culture SchoolUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Japanese, Latin
Github Skills (2)
react3
slack2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
KaminariNoKage/MadLib
Feb 2013 - Feb 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 2 days
dotkai/fakeDB
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:4 commits in 1 month
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