Austin Steeno

Software Engineer | Frontend

Dedicated engineer with 12 years of hands-on, professional experience in frontend focused development. I bring unique expertise in data visualization and interactive media, a strong design sensibility, and in-depth knowledge of the web platform and standards. I am skilled in developing scalable, intuitive and high-performance web applications. I thrive when faced with complex problems and unknowns, and transforming what if into what is.

Personals

Sacramento, California

Education

2010 - 2013

Arizona State University

B.S.E. in Computer Systems Engineering

Skills

Core Web Technologies

HTML, CSS, JavaScript
TypeScript, Sass, Canvas, WebGL
Websockets, Webhooks, HTTP

Frontend

Backend

Tools

Cloud Platforms

Other

Java, Python, C#, SQL, NoSql

Soft Skills

Problem Solving, Attention To Detail, Critical Thinking, Self Management, Communication, Continuous Learning, Creativity

Career Experience

CoreStack

Senior Software Engineer
2022-2025

Worked cross-functionally with existing engineering teams, product managers and designers to refresh product frontend to be built on the Angular UI platform developed at Optio3. Took ownership of a new dashboard drilldown system, refining use cases and design and driving it from concept to release, adding immense value and marketability to the corresponding major product release.

Optio3

Senior Software Engineer
2018-2022

Fourth engineering hire. Developed advanced, home-grown, high-performance data visualization tools, enabling realtime visualization of large-scale datasets, driving up platform value and enabling use of product by field technicians with mobile devices. Expanded and relentlessly refined and optimized platform UI components, a key value factor resulting in company acquisition.

ServiceNow

Senior Software Development Engineer
2016-2018

Developed foundational data visualization components for the newly formed Service Intelligence team, giving new and useful ways for customers to reason about service status. Conducted hiring interviews and gave technical talks, increasing multiple teams capacity for frontend development. Designed and implemented an extendable, low-code data processing and visualization pipeline, unlocking new data analysis paradigms for customers and laying the foundation for further machine learning features.

Software Development Engineer
2014-2016

Lead engineer behind CMDB Service Mapping UI development (showcased in Knowledge keynote). Travelled abroad to accelerate integration of acquired company Neebula, rewrote their core graph render in JavaScript and conducted crash courses, resulting in ahead-of-schedule integration and product release. Identified gaps in transition to AngularJS frontend and created missing components, resulting in better product continuity and accelerated development pace for the team.

Associate Software Development Engineer
2013-2014

Bootstrapped a WYSIWYG dashboard system for the CMDB product, resulting in the green light to develop cutting edge visualization and navigation features, proved the viability and utility of D3 within the product space.

Freelance Projects

Video Processing Pipeline
2024

Developed an automated video processing pipeline using FFMPEG and Node.js, hosted on Firebase/GCP.

Twitch Election System
2023

Developed a scalable real-time voting and virtual currency system with dynamic overlays, web-based control panels, a Twitch extension, and a cloud-hosted backend.