FULL-STACK SOFTWARE ENGINEER

I build software that makes the business run better.

I'm Austin—a full-stack engineer and technology operations leader who turns complicated workflows into reliable products, cloud services, and measurable business outcomes.

Scottsdale, ArizonaCloud, platform & business systems
SELECTED OUTCOMES

Engineering measured in impact.

$100K+annual licensing expense eliminated
90%reduction in project asset loss
$1M+projected vendor and infrastructure costs avoided
1K+users served by customer-facing features
Production work across applications, APIs, data, and IT systems
Explore the work
01 / SELECTED IMPACT

Proof in production.

The strongest engineering work connects technical decisions to outcomes people can see, use, and measure.

01
WORKFORCE SYSTEMS

Replaced a six-figure licensing dependency.

Built a proprietary employee badging platform with secure scan workflows and Apple Wallet and Google Wallet support—saving more than $100,000 annually.

React Native
Next.js
Secure workflows
02
OPERATIONS AT SCALE

Turned physical inventory into protected data.

Designed digitization tools, led cross-team adoption, and established reusable standards that cataloged over $2 million in project inventory and cut asset loss by 90%.

Product discovery
Platform design
Change leadership
03
CLOUD ENGINEERING

Moved critical workloads to on-demand infrastructure.

Developed and operated 15+ AWS Lambda functions and supporting services, replacing outsourced work and reducing always-on EC2 usage to avoid seven-figure projected costs.

AWS Lambda
Node.js
FastAPI
02 / EXPERIENCE

Built across the stack.

Four-plus years of professional engineering experience, grounded in an earlier career of customer service and operational ownership.

MAY 2024 — PRESENT

Full-Stack Software Engineer & IT Manager

Armstrong Construction Group·Scottsdale, AZ
01

Leading the complete lifecycle of internal products—from operational discovery and architecture to deployment, adoption, and support.

  • Built production applications spanning employee identity, time tracking, intelligent document retrieval, and inventory operations.
  • Migrated physical records into OneDrive and developed an AI-assisted Next.js search experience using Radix UI, Tailwind CSS, and Prisma.
  • Created a secure multi-user QuickBooks Enterprise environment with local virtual machines and Tailscale for remote accounting collaboration.
  • Standardized IT operations with automated Windows deployment, Microsoft 365 conference rooms, and hands-on endpoint and account support.
FEB 2022 — JAN 2024

Full-Stack Software Engineer

FarmFlight·Tempe, AZ
02

Built and operated data-intensive product capabilities, APIs, background workers, and cloud services for an agricultural technology platform.

  • Designed and maintained a 300+ table Amazon RDS PostgreSQL environment supporting evolving product data models.
  • Built Node.js and FastAPI services that managed first- and third-party licensing workflows and handled thousands of requests per day.
  • Added telemetry and detailed logging to connect API behavior with vector context for faster diagnosis and better system insight.
  • Worked across CI/CD, code review, load testing, and unit, integration, and end-to-end automation while owning daily-use customer features.
Additional technical work
2017

Contract Software Engineer

AlertGPS

Designed 20+ MongoDB and Google Cloud SQL data structures, created REST APIs, built 50+ React components, and developed Java automation scripts.

INDEPENDENT PROJECT

Media Search Platform

Self-hosted

Built and maintained a Dockerized media indexing and request platform across Unraid and Ubuntu using Vue.js, Node.js, MySQL, Bash, and REST APIs.

03 / CAPABILITIES

One engineer. Multiple layers.

Comfortable moving from user workflow and interface to API, database, deployment, and the operational system around it.

Application engineering

React, Next.js, React Native, Expo, Vue.js, Node.js, Express, FastAPI, Tailwind CSS, Radix UI

Data systems

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Prisma, Sequelize, SQL, data modeling, query optimization

Cloud & platform

AWS Lambda, EC2, RDS, Docker, CI/CD, telemetry, observability, distributed systems

Technical leadership

Discovery, architecture, cross-team adoption, legacy integration, documentation, IT operations

CORE LANGUAGES
Python
JavaScript
PHP
Java
Bash
SQL
04 / FOUNDATION

Technical instincts. Operational empathy.

Before writing software professionally, I worked directly with customers, devices, inventory, and high-pressure operations at Best Buy, Staples, Walmart, and Subway. That experience still shapes how I build: understand the real workflow, explain the tradeoffs clearly, and make the system dependable for the people using it.

EDUCATIONHigh School DiplomaAdditional college coursework
LEADERSHIPEagle ScoutBoy Scouts of America · 2017
LET'S BUILD SOMETHING USEFUL

Have a hard operational problem?

I'd love to hear what isn't working—and explore what the right software could change.

contact@austindurham.info