# Austin Thiel

> Senior Software Engineer II @ Apartment List

Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/austinthiel

Fully remote, seasoned full-stack engineer with 6+ years of experience developing:
- Rich and delightful websites and frontend product features
- Highly available and extremely fast backend services
- Durable and scalable DevOps pipelines

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II @ Apartment List
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Apartment List
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
- Traveled to Israel for 6 weeks to help integrate the engineering team of an acquired company
- Rewrote the apartmentlist.com website in Typescript and Next.js netting >$6M in ARR
- Designed and built several production Golang services, serving >1M monthly requests
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines powered by Jenkins, GCP, and GKE

### Software Engineer II @ Apartment List
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California
- Shipped product features and experiments to the logged-in side of the site
- Built an A/B testing framework for logged-out cached pages sitting behind a CDN
- Introduced several developer tools to increase productivity and catch bugs as early as possible

### Software Engineer @ Drop
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
- Shipped product features and experiments for a specialty eCommerce site
- Designed and built a rich WYSIWYG image tagging system with auto-generated product pages
- Rebuilt several high-traffic pages from scratch during a site-wide rebrand

### Software Engineer @ Chapman University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | MLAT Autism Labs
- Built and maintained RESTful services for an Android app using Express
- Implemented user authorization and designed all database models in MongoDB
- Created a web front-end with Angular 2 for non-mobile demos and testing

### Software Engineer Intern @ Mobcrush
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Santa Monica, CA
- Shipped a full-featured chat bot and increased user engagement by 98% in the first month
- Wrote NodeJS services to ensure a 100% push notification delivery rate on mobile
- Refactored 2000+ lines of JavaScript to ES6 and greatly improved documentation

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Chapman University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | MLAT Autism Labs
- Partnered with UCLA to build the first VR game in Unity for treating Autism
- Implemented speech recognition and state patterns for NPC interactions
- Added features to monitor user heart rate, eye focus, and speaking volume


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science and Minor in Mathematics
Chapman University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### Study Abroad in Computer Science
Yonsei University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ajthiel
- Website: http://www.austinthiel.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22