# Austin Pendergrass

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/austinpendergrass

Full Stack Software Engineer specializing in modern cloud-native applications. Bridging traditional development with cutting-edge AI engineering solutions on GCP. Experienced in building scalable applications using NodeJS, Python, .NET and React, with a focus on integrating AI/ML capabilities into enterprise solutions. Passionate about exploring the intersection of software engineering and artificial intelligence through both professional work and personal projects.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Strategic Education, Inc
Jan 2023 – Present
- Build custom react components for a learning management system
- Research / Build / Design applications on top of various generative AI large language models
- Cloud architecture / System design for greenfield projects. Leveraging GCP, Nodejs, and React
- Maintain & Support a chatbot application
- AI & Automation project focused

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cureatr
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
- Project lead for third party mobile vendor integration

### Senior Software Engineer @ Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Memphis, Tennessee, United States
- Greenfield development to modernize a legacy platform using .NET / Angular / Auth0
- Design / Develop eventing system driven by .NET/ CassandraDB / MongoDB / and RabbitMQ
- Microservices  development

### Programmer Analyst @ Sparq
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States
- Assist in the development of multiple full stack applications using React and .NET Core.
- Build tools and processes around CI/CD pipelines involving integration with Gitlab, Cloud Foundry, Docker, Flyway and the Google Cloud Platform
- Assist in the architecture and implementation of multiple greenfield .NET Core API services.
- Research and implement multiple software engineering architectural designs / patterns on client work. Generating multiple design documents in the process.
- Implement multiple security solutions using Auth0. (LDAP, SAML, OAuth)

### Associate Consultant @ Sparq
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States
- Full stack development of multiple branded sites using technologies such as Drupal, NodeJS, AngularJS, Laravel, React, Mysql and AWS.
- Assisted in automating multiple processes such as content migrations

### Junior Associate Consultant @ Sparq
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States
- Helped design and build out the API for an internal project using ASP.NET Core Web API, Entity Framework, and Sql Server. All of which were hosted in the cloud via AWS.
- Maintenance and support of a legacy php web application used as an inventory system.

### Computer Sales Associate @ Best Buy
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Arkansas State University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22