Mitchell Austin
CEO at The lucien Group
Caldwell, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMitchell Austin is a CEO and wireless telecommunications entrepreneur with over fifteen years leading site acquisition, turnkey development, construction and engineering projects nationwide. He founded The Lucien Group in 2005 and scaled it from a New York City site-acquisition shop into a full-service development and regulatory-compliance firm, blending real estate entitlements, AE oversight, and construction management. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran with executive education from Harvard Business School OPM and multilingual academic roots in French and history, he brings disciplined leadership and cross-cultural perspective to complex stakeholder environments. Mitchell combines market-level strategy with hands-on project delivery, having overseen regulatory, marketing, and entitlement work across distributed infrastructure programs. He also contributes to open-source front-end work—improving accessibility and UX in WordPress’s high-profile Gutenberg project—highlighting a practical curiosity for user-facing software. Based in Caldwell, New Jersey, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a track record of turning regulatory and technical complexity into reliable, scalable deployments.
10 years of coding experience
French, French at Université LavalFrench literature, French literature at Université Sorbonne NouvelleBA, French, BA, French at University of ConnecticutOPM Executive Management, OPM Executive Management at Harvard Business School
Github Skills (10)
wordpress10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
gutenberg10
react10
jestjs9
jes9
jtest9
css8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:511 reviews, 148 commits, 282 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mitchell primarily contributed to the development and improvement of the Gutenberg block editor. Their work included updating and testing input and range controls, refining unit controls, and fixing various UI elements. They focused on enhancing user interactions, such as ensuring focus for number inputs and addressing issues with popover toggles. Furthermore, the user's contributions extended to improvements in the cover block and media & text block functionalities.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
stokesman/gutenberg
Aug 2020 - Jan 2025
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 4 years 5 months
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
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