Austin Montoya

I took this project from its initial debut in Soho, New York, and helped scale it to 10 stores across the world, including in China, France, and other stores in the United States.

After its debut, the company realized the project was non-functional for use in other stores in other stores. Our team was assembled to help fix this obstacle, implement analytics, and bring the project to more locations while being able to monitor the system behavior remotely.

Activities ranged from sensor setup and calibration to automated testing libraries, game and video content update systems across complex, multi-screen retail display matrices, and custom application development in several languages.

An HTML5-based application suite for discovering local events, searching for products, and requesting in-store help. The screens were deployed to several hundred retail stores, mainly in the US and China.

I was a full-stack developer responsible for the foundational back-end and front-end components. I worked with the architecture and security teams to design and implement a client certificate-based authentication system in AWS and Windows for securing API access. I also helped build an electron-based native client to host and update the stores' applications. I also helped deploy and update the EC2-based back end, running a Node.js web server.

A streaming-based implementation of popular games using the Skillz competition framework. Think Netflix, but for video games: they can be started instantly with no installation.

I designed and built the embeddable web client, integrating NextJS with WebRTC-based streaming capabilities to deliver an evergreen "widget" for game streaming for use across multiple sites. I also worked with the games.skillz.com team to integrate the feature, eventually taking over development and operations for the site.

I also helped deliver a full-stack feature to provide real-time geolocation from the browser to the native Android SDK via a WebSocket-based bidirectional communication channel.