# Austin Wood > Software Engineer Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/austinwood 10+ years of software engineering specializing in the creation of highly composable, accessible, and maintainable frontend UI using React. Experience building at scale for large companies and moving deftly at small startups. Highly skilled and knowledgable in web development. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Airbnb Jan 2020 – Present Currently working on the Checkout experience and flow on web. Previously on Airbnb for Work. ### Software Engineer @ Airbnb Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area On the product side, I migrated and refactored multiple critical host-side applications to our modern technical stack, improving UX and page performance for millions of hosts. On the infra side, I built web components on the central design systems team, DLS, using advanced frontend patterns to make React components highly composable, accessible, and styleable. ### Contract Software Engineer @ Mammoth Water Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote Builder and maintainer of the product dashboard, built on the web using React (via Next.js) for page layout and server-side rendering; react-query for data-fetching; and TailwindCSS for styling. ### Software Engineer @ Shipt Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Responsible for the ideation, architecture, quality consistency, documentation, and testing of the Shipt web app, written in React and Redux. Designed the deployment pipeline, abiding closely with CI principles and agile methodologies, and encouraged disciplined and advanced use of Git to maintain a tight delivery process. Contributed to the development and practice of a strong engineering culture for the web team with an emphasis on functional programming, testing, detailed code reviews, and frequent pair programming. ### Software Engineer @ Globality, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Menlo Park, California, United States Extensive work on the front-end UI, built in AngularJS and written in TypeScript. Learned a great deal about JavaScript patterns, type systems, functional programming, and micro-service architectures. ### Software Engineer @ AdHawk Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boulder, Colorado, United States Helped engineer the Rails backend and API layer to serve aggregated metrics data to the iOS team. Built their landing page and helped prepare for Techstars Demo Day. ### Computer Science Learning Assistant @ University of Colorado Boulder Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Boulder, Colorado, United States Provided grading and project support for undergraduate computer science courses including Data Structures, Computer Systems, and Software Engineering Methods & Tools. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Waffle.io Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Boulder, Colorado, United States Learned and applied lean startup principles to a real world product, focusing highly on customer-driven development. Extensive work on finding customer's largest pain points and building an application with true value. Lead engineer of the team, Andrew Homeyer, became an incredible mentor and friend, helping us discover the hardships and rewards of running a startup. Over the summer, I developed metrics for Waffle.io, a project management solution built on top of GitHub issues. I learned Angular.js, CoffeeScript, Node.js, and the principles of test-driven development along the way. ### At Home Advisor @ Apple Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Worked from Home I handled Apple technical support questions over the phone from my house. Specialized in CPU Apple products, but also dealt with Account Security and iTunes troubleshooting. ### Server @ Rocky Mountain Catering Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 One of my neighbor's runs this company and offered me a job there over the summer of 2013. The events consist of wedding receptions, house parties, etc. I was usually part of the early crew, helped set up the events, served and catered to the individuals at the party, and clean as needed. This is all usually done with 5-8 other caterers over the course of 3-8 hours. ### Customer Specialist @ Best Buy Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | 8682 Park Meadows Center Dr Marketplace Meadows Lone Tree, CO 80124 Front lanes cashier dealing with a majority of checkouts and purchases. Customer support for people with questions, making returns, etc. Helped other departments around the store when it was needed. ### Busser @ Outback Steakhouse Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | 15 W. Springer Drive Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 Offered arriving customers refreshments once they were first seated, cleared the tables once the customers left, stocked the bar and cleaned accidental spills/messes. ## Education ### Certificate of Web Application Development with Ruby in Rails, and JavaScript, Professional Software Developer Turing School of Software & Design ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/austingwood --- Source: https://flows.cv/austinwood JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/austinwood/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29