
Austin Wood
Verified Expert in Engineering
Product Management Developer
Austin has over seven years of experience developing mobile applications with tech startups in Silicon Valley. Before that, he worked as an experimental and theoretical physics researcher with the Joint Quantum Institute and The Center for String and Particle Theory. As an engineer, Austin loves creating products that deliver exquisite user experiences.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Node.js, CSS, HTML, React Native, React, JavaScript, Swift, iOS SDK
The most amazing...
...team I've worked with was when I was a CTO at JustHive, a social media startup valued at $10 million, which I grew from four to twelve engineers.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
7Cups: Anxiety and Stress Chat
- Spearheaded the mobile app rewrite in React Native.
- Used Redux and WebSockets to build real-time chat functionality.
- Grew the mobile engineering team from one to five engineers.
CTO
JustHive: Social, Data-Driven Forums for the Mobile Era
- Grew the engineering team from 4 to 12 developers.
- Managed all engineering teams: mobile, web, back end, DevOps, and Blockchain.
- Oversaw non-engineering efforts: product development, marketing, and content creation.
iOS and Android Developer
EExT Mobile Software Development
- Developed multiple mobile apps, including a video game review network.
- Worked directly with clients to distill their abstract vision into concrete objectives.
- Conducted user interviews to improve the user experience of apps.
Researcher
Joint Quantum Institute
- Built a machine and wrote software for the construction of tapered nanofiber optic cables.
- Co-authored multiple publications, including Atoms talking to SQUIDs.
- Presented research at the 2012 Frontiers in Optics conference in San Jose, CA.
Experience
7Cups: Anxiety and Stress Chat
Clava: Location-Based Chatrooms
Knnkt: Friend Finder
SuccessMode: Goals Planner, Meditations, and Other Success Tools
Skills
Languages
Swift, JavaScript, SQL, Python 3, Ruby, CSS, HTML, Python, Java, Wolfram, Dart, Objective-C
Frameworks
React Native, Redux, iOS SDK, Android SDK, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Flask, Ruby on Rails 5
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, Twilio API, Facebook API
Tools
Xcode, Git, Jira, Trello, Slack, MATLAB, Mathematica
Paradigms
Mobile Development, Agile Software Development
Platforms
iOS, Firebase, Android, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker
Other
Product Management, Algorithms, Data Structures, System Architecture, Physics
Storage
MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, NoSQL
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics
University of Maryland - College Park, MD