Austin Gayler, Developer in Interlaken, Switzerland
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Austin Gayler

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Bio

Austin is a front-end developer with 8+ years of experience specializing in React and Tailwind CSS codebases. He loves working on user-facing features and always keeps UX front of mind. Austin started his career as a full-stack developer, so he can also add value on the back end. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science.

Portfolio

Freelance clients
JavaScript, TypeScript, React Native, CSS, API Integration, Android, iOS...
Wyssen Avalanche Control
React, Vue, PHP, CSS, HTML, REST, Git, JavaScript, Responsive UI, Full-stack...
Lateral GmbH
React, CSS, TypeScript, HTML, REST, Git, JavaScript, Responsive UI...

Experience

  • JavaScript - 11 years
  • Git - 8 years
  • React - 8 years
  • CSS - 8 years
  • REST - 6 years
  • UI Components - 4 years
  • Tailwind CSS - 3 years
  • Chakra UI - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Vim Text Editor, Front-end, TypeScript, Software Development

The most amazing...

...deep dive into React performance optimization I've done was building an interface for annotating dense PDFs with hundreds of pages, such as research papers.

Work Experience

Software Developer

2021 - PRESENT
Freelance clients
  • Built an iOS/Android application using React Native/Expo to onboard stroke detection study participants and help them set up Zeit's IoT device with WiFi credentials via Bluetooth.
  • Created a tool with React/Apollo for a Fortune 500 client to manage home construction details. The main functionality is the live spreadsheet-style data editing; the production version handles about 50,000 homesites spread across five US states.
  • Provisioned the React Native app to both Google Play Store and the App Store, which the 300 clinical study participants used.
Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React Native, CSS, API Integration, Android, iOS, Node.js, Bootstrap, React, HTML, REST, Git, Responsive UI, Full-stack, Web Development, DevOps, Bluetooth, Integration, GraphQL, Tailwind CSS, Front-end, App Development, Expo, Software Development, Data Visualization

Front-end Developer

2021 - 2022
Wyssen Avalanche Control
  • Built features, fixed bugs, and modernized the software toolkit for an IoT dashboard used to control avalanche detection and mitigation systems. This was a monolth PHP web application using Vue.js, React, and jQuery micro front ends.
  • Worked on this dashboard, which pulls data from approximately 600 IoT devices distributed across eight countries with security considerations for controlling explosives.
  • Analyzed and upgraded legacy coding practices, team communication, and development patterns.
  • Integrated modern Vue.js tooling into the development workflow, increasing developer velocity and UI consistency.
  • Used data-heavy maps with Leaflet to integrate and manage avalanche control, weather, and topographical data.
Technologies: React, Vue, PHP, CSS, HTML, REST, Git, JavaScript, Responsive UI, Full-stack, Web Development, DevOps, Integration, Front-end, Monorepos, Next.js, Software Development, Data Visualization

Front-end Developer

2019 - 2021
Lateral GmbH
  • Built admin training interfaces to manage documents and data relationships for classifiable entities.
  • Achieved consistency in tool UIs by growing a shared component library using Storybook.
  • Implemented super-performant HTML Canvas interfaces to edit and draw on PDFs with 100+ pages—not a trivial problem to solve.
  • Wrote component tests using React Testing Library and Cypress.
Technologies: React, CSS, TypeScript, HTML, REST, Git, JavaScript, Responsive UI, Web Development, Integration, GraphQL, Tailwind CSS, Front-end, Monorepos, Next.js, Software Development, Data Visualization

Front-end Developer

2016 - 2019
The Business Garage
  • Built a landing page, admin dashboard, API, and AWS infrastructure for a promotion entered by around 15,000 people simultaneously at Major League Baseball games.
  • Researched and feasibility tested several tools in the speech-processing domain: speech recognition, scoring, speaker diarization, sentiment analysis, and text summarization.
  • Built an admin dashboard to manage users of a staff credentialing app: integrated user NFC and GPS location data to develop insightful maps and scaled the dashboard for use from five to 150 staff over four events while testing and gathering feedback.
  • Feasibility-tested a number of cutting-edge APIs in the speech-processing domain: scoring, speaker diarization, and sentiment analysis. Built a web interface to upload audio, run it through different tools, and visualize and compare the results.
Technologies: React, Redux, Leaflet, CSS, HTML, REST, Git, JavaScript, Responsive UI, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Full-stack, Node.js, Web Development, DevOps, Integration, Tailwind CSS, Front-end, Android, iOS, App Development, PostgreSQL, Software Development, Data Visualization

Lead Full-stack Developer

2015 - 2016
ShareLift
  • Launched an MVP allowing users to share car rides to two local ski resorts.
  • Organized the initial project development and integrated contributions from two intern developers from a local university.
  • Coordinated app builds for multiple platforms using the then cutting-edge PhoneGap, which is now Apache Cordova.
Technologies: Meteor, JavaScript, AngularJS, Ionic, Cordova, CSS, Bootstrap, HTML, REST, Git, Responsive UI, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Full-stack, Node.js, Web Development, MongoDB, DevOps, Integration, Front-end, Android, iOS, App Development, Software Development, Data Visualization

Web Developer

2013 - 2015
Montana State University
  • Performed back‐end and front‐end updates to the Exponent website using WordPress and PHP.
  • Added a user login and commenting system for university articles.
  • Added SEO optimization and tracking to better rank articles in search engines.
  • Used Umbraco CMS to build a website for the Sedimentary Geology Research (SGR) Lab.
Technologies: PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Software Development

Web Developer

2011 - 2012
Freelance Clients
  • Conducted needs assessments, gathered requirements, and collaborated with stakeholders for website projects at two local charities, Palouse Cares and Wish Cranes.
  • Established hosting infrastructure and configured Apache servers to ensure seamless deployment and optimal performance for the developed charity websites.
  • Added SEO to the sites, ensuring they're shown and associated with the local community.
Technologies: HTML, CSS, Apache, IT Infrastructure, Web Hosting, Software Development, JavaScript

Experience

Portfolio Website

https://austingayler.github.io/
This is my personal portfolio website. I built it in React, and it contains brief screenshots and descriptions of some of the projects I've worked on in my more than ten years of programming. Finally, I deployed with Github pages.

Photovision

https://github.com/austingayler/photovision
A dataset I built from my own archive of landscape photographs from around ten years of serious amateur photography. I trained a GAN on them to answer several pressing philosophical questions about art and artificial intelligence, such as:
• How many familiar elements will be in the network's generated photos?
• What feelings will I get when I look at the results?
• Will I look at a generated image and think, "That's how I would have composed that photographically, yep!"

SHV Theory Study App

https://github.com/austingayler/SHV-FSVL-Theory-Practice-Questions
A web, Android, and iOS application to study for the SHV/FSVL theory exam. The application is responsive, works on all three platforms, and is built with React Native/Expo.

I set up the data for the app by scraping the SHV website for questions and cleaning that data, converting from XML to JSON, modifying several fields, etc. In the application, one can write notes tied to specific questions to help aid understanding.

Education

2012 - 2016

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Montana State University - Bozeman, MT, USA

Skills

Libraries/APIs

React, Node.js, Leaflet, Vue

Tools

Vim Text Editor, Git, Expo, Apache

Languages

CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, GraphQL, PHP, Python

Paradigms

App Development, REST, DevOps

Frameworks

Tailwind CSS, React Native, Bootstrap, Redux, AngularJS, Ionic, Next.js

Platforms

Linux, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), AWS Lambda, Meteor, Android, iOS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), WordPress

Storage

MongoDB, PostgreSQL

Other

Web Development, Integration, Front-end, Data Visualization, Software Development, Computer Science, Chakra UI, UI Components, Responsive UI, Full-stack, Bluetooth, Monorepos, Cordova, API Integration, IT Infrastructure, Web Hosting

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