Austin Howard

Work Experience

January 2026 - Present

Software Engineer

  • Helped migrate a large backend platform to a new Azure environment, improving scalability, reliability, and long‑term maintainability.
  • Improved system performance by building and maintaining asynchronous workflows using Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions.
  • Contributed to more reliable production releases by aligning application changes with existing CI/CD and deployment workflows.

January 2024 - January 2026

Associate Software Engineer

  • Contributed to breaking down a legacy monolithic system into smaller, independent microservices using ASP.NET Core on Azure.
  • Built and maintained internal tools with C#/.NET and React that helped customer service teams work more efficiently and reduced manual data cleanup.
  • Improved application performance by optimizing high‑traffic services and refactoring data‑sync workflows.
  • Worked closely with senior engineers in Agile sprints to design, build, and safely deploy production features with minimal customer impact.

May 2022 - January 2024

Application Support Engineer

  • Supported live production systems by monitoring applications and responding to incidents affecting both backend and frontend services.
  • Built and standardized monitoring and alerting using Datadog and Squadcast, significantly improving how quickly the team could detect and respond to issues.
  • Took part in high‑severity incident responses, helping identify root causes and implement long‑term fixes to prevent repeat problems.
  • Wrote runbooks and troubleshooting guides to improve on‑call efficiency and coordinated fixes using Jira and Azure Boards.

Dec 2021 - May 2022

Frontend Engineer Intern

  • Built reusable UI components and helped standardize styling across the application to improve consistency and maintainability.
  • Improved page performance and user experience by supporting a single‑page application with real‑time data updates.
  • Refactored frontend code to simplify component logic and reduce complexity, making the codebase easier to understand and extend.

Education

October 2020 - March 2021

App Academy

  • Completed intensive 24-week full-stack bootcamp with focus on modern web development practices.
  • Built 4 full-stack applications using a combination of React, Node.js, Express.js, Python, Flask and PostgreSQL with deployment to production.
  • Collaborated on team projects using Git, Agile workflows, and code review practices in a professional development environment.