# Austin Alameda

> First Software Engineer at Agave

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/austinalameda

Currently enjoying playing with TypeScript/MobX/React/Electron

## Work Experience
### First Software Engineer @ Agave
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Lead Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Santa Barbara, California, United States

### Software Engineer II @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Santa Barbara, California, United States
Creating Java/PHP/Typescript services and tooling for customers to create their own Alexa Knowledge skills https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2019/12/Announcing-Alexa-Knowledge-Skills-Preview-Query-Your-Organizations-Data-Without-Writing-Code-or-Invoking-a-Skill-Name

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Santa Barbara, California Area
Creating Java/PHP/Typescript services and tooling for customers to create their own Alexa Knowledge skills https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2019/12/Announcing-Alexa-Knowledge-Skills-Preview-Query-Your-Organizations-Data-Without-Writing-Code-or-Invoking-a-Skill-Name

### Senior Software Engineer @ Wyatt Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Goleta, CA
Project lead developing a React/MobX Typescript frontend hosted by Electron for a C++ backend communicating over gRPC and ZeroMQ. Removed MFC UI and replaced with Electron UI, both reskinning and redesigning the UI for an optimized workflow. Implemented testing framework for unit, integration, and automated UI testing.

### Software Engineer @ Wyatt Technology
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Goleta, CA
Developing in C++ to add front and backend for new scientific analysis, and to extend existing scientific analysis in Windows desktop application ASTRA.  Developing in C# to implement a Windows service that bridges communication and control between desktop application ASTRA and Agilent HPLC instrument hardware using 3rd party SDK.  Developing in Javascript to create a React Electron application to interface with and diagnose health of scientific instruments.

### Junior Software Engineer @ Wyatt Technology
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Goleta, CA
Developing in C++/C# for flagship Windows desktop application ASTRA, the most powerful and versatile software available for the characterization of macromolecules and nanoparticles via multi-angle and dynamic light scattering.  Focusing on development and improvement of scientific algorithms and graphical interface, enhancing instrument communications, and modernization/refactoring of legacy code.

### Software Engineer @ Santa Barbara Imaging Systems
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Goleta, CA
Developing in C/C++ for embedded systems controlling cameras for medical equipment via serial connection, enhancing multi-threaded kernel and inter-process communications, familiarized with cross-compiling and image processing.

### Student Web Developer @ Student Information Systems & Technology
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Goleta, CA
Learned to use Visual Studio IDE, learned MVC and webforms, maintained company web services using C# and .NET, developed custom widgets/modules for company SiteFinity CMS, developed in house tool to retrieve markdown from version control repository (TFS) and render as styled HTML (similar to Github)

### Entry Level Data Analyst @ VSolvIT
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Remote
Data Repository maintenance, Staffing/Recruitment, Excel, GoogleApps, Joomla CMS

### IT Consultant @ UCSB ITG
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | UCSB Education Building
On site / remote IT consultant
ARD, FileMaker, Ticketing, Troubleshooting, OS Imaging, Hardware/Software Installation, Network Issues, IP Distribution, Oracle Calendar, Global Viewer Enterprise

### QA Software Engineer Intern @ Ontraport
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Software Automation 
Selenium Builder/IDE 1&2, SauceLabs, Firebug, Firepath, TortoiseSVN, GitHub, HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, Xpath, PHP, MySQL, XAMPP, RSS, Regex

### Lifeguard @ Six Flags
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
Saved lives/CPR


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Engineering
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/austin-alameda

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Last updated: 2026-03-22