# Austin Lee > Senior Software Engineer at Google, CiviForm Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/austinlee ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2018 – Present Senior SWE with Google.org, working on helping residents apply for public benefits with CiviForm, a tool we built with Exygy and the City of Seattle. Previously on Maps and Local Search ### Frontend Engineer II @ Socrata Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area ### Frontend Engineer @ Socrata Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, Washington As an engineer on the Customer Success team, I've worked with federal, state, and local governments to build out custom solutions on top of Socrata's Publica Open Data Platform. I've worked with governments ranging from the cities of Seattle and Dallas, to the states of New Jersey and Michigan, to the European Commission. These solutions have been built with Jekyll, React, Redux, Ruby, and other technologies. I've also given a talk on being aware of biases in data when using that data for decision making. ### Data Migration Specialist @ Vineyard Heights Design Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Portland, Oregon Area As a member of the data migration team, I worked with the intellectual property offices at labs and universities to migrate IP data from their databases to a new system. In addition to expanding my SQL expertise, to complete successful migrations I: - Migrated the 10th largest university IP portfolio to a new vendor’s system. - Customized vendor’s system to match the client’s workflow. - Bridged communication gaps between the vendor’s team and clients. ### Software Research & Development Intern @ HP Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Corvallis, Oregon Area As a member of the IHPS software team, I completed several projects designed to improve the engineers' visibility into the systems they were designing. All projects began as open-ended research into a problem and, by rapidly iterating prototypes, concluded with a simple, intuitive tool that solved it. By carefully considering the needs of the team, usability of the tools, and maintainability of my code, I built tools I was proud of. More specifically, I: - Built tooling that reduced time to debug core app platform issues by 40%. - Built a dashboard that aggregates WebPress printing performance data, enabling both engineering and management to easily track project status. - Performed self-directed research into and testing of the message queuing system that facilitates communication between the various internal services of the WebPress. - Developed tooling to provide visibility into this messaging system and help diagnose issues with specific components. For these projects I used ActiveMQ, Javascript, HTML, Jquery, Fabric, and Flot.js. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Jive Software Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 At Jive I was able to learn the code base and software stack quickly, allowing me to make meaningful contributions to the product almost immediately. Right off the bat I was given full responsibility over improving a key aspect of the product's onboarding process, which required organizing and running meetings with the product team and other stakeholders from across the organization. The opportunity to write code that improved the experiences of millions of users was extremely rewarding. More specifically, I: - Developed dozens of features and bugfixes across the full software stack. - Coordinated with designers and product owners to improve the usability of the application’s onboarding process. - Collaborated with another intern to expand the usefulness of @mentions. - Advocated for and implemented design changes that reduced user friction. - Fixed bugs throughout the software stack, including simple i18n key errors, rending problems, and unshippable backend issues. - Developed other features and improvements to the user experience and application backend, using JavaScript, Java, Spring, and Tomcat. ### Software Engineering Intern @ OpenSesame Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 As a member of OpenSesame's software development team I had wide range of responsibilities. My tasks included fixing bugs in the application's backend, designing and implementing unit testing and functional testing, coordinating with other interns, and building and refactoring internal tools. I especially enjoyed the opportunities to lead and mentor other interns. More specifically, I: - Improved UI regression test coverage to over 80% by redesigning the testing system around Selenium WebDriver. - Mentored and managed a team of interns writing tests on this system. - Redesigned tools used for cache invalidation and data uploads, resulting in reduced complexity and speed gains of over 1000% for each. - Wrote a Python tool that used Scrapy to pre-render pages of the site and push them to the CDN. - Developed dozens of other features and bugfixes throughout the stack. - Rebuilt the the tool used to manage bulk uploads of SCORM e-learning modules to upload through the API. This involved expanding the API to support bulk uploads as well. - Prototyped a way of using Puppet to manage virtual development servers. - Transitioned the version control system from an internal Subversion server to Github, with minimal interruption to development time or production servers. ### Team Member @ Intel Learning Company Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Corvallis, Oregon Area The Intel Learning Company is an Intel sponsored program at Oregon State University to improve research and the CS curriculum. OSU's Computer Science sequence needs to serve students who matriculate with a wide range of skills. With this goal in mind, we worked with graduate students to improve the introductory sequence to better serve students with anywhere from zero to extensive programming experience. ### Software Engineering Intern @ BlueTech LLC Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 After spending a summer doing data entry for the marketing team, I was asked to come back and join the software development team. For the development team, I: - Helped to set up systems for unit testing and wrote tests throughout the product. - Worked on globalization and localization of the application. - Used C#, ASP.NET, and the Selenium testing library. The next summer I returned to join the same team at BlueTech's spinoff company, OpenSesame (above). ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Physics Oregon State University, University Honors College Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 ### International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in Full IB Diploma Lincoln High School Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/auzlee - GitHub: https://www.github.com/auzlee --- Source: https://flows.cv/austinlee JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/austinlee/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22