My name is Austin, and I'm a software developer in the film industry. I currently work at Laika Studios.

My career has been in pipeline developement at VFX and production companies. I've made custom internal tools for all departments at a production company primarily using Python, TypeScript, and a little bit of Rust.

Some particularly interesting work projects include:

• A custom Timecard web app using Autodesk's Flow PT (Shotgun) as a backend so we could easily link and explore time spent to actual work done by artists.
• A proxy for Hiero's "Sync Session" tool, so we can allow hundreds of people to connect to a single review session.
• A Rust framework to allow us to write code once in Rust (with minimal boilerplate) and call that code as a library from TypeScript and Python, with proper types and async support.
• A UI framework in Python that allows you to write QT-esque code once, and deploy the same app as a desktop QT app or as an web app.

Outside of work, I run a free app called BlueNotify that gives post notifications to over 8000 Bluesky users and sends over 150k notifications a day.

I also tinker with experimental video games that I occasionally present at Open Sauce. Some past projects include Eat Me!, a multiplayer platformer that can support up to 10,000 players in a single server, and Save the Baby!, a ridiculous "Social Experiment" where attendees of the convention need to work together to keep a virtual baby alive for many days.

Some technologies I've used:

• Python
• Rust
• TypeScript
  • VueJs
  • ReactJS
• NATS
• Postgres
• Flutter, Dart
• Godot, GDScript
• Java
• Docker/K8s

I went to film school at the Academy of Film, Theatre, and Television in Sydney, Australia.

I love writing music, watching movies, and long distance running.

I'm currently working on an album of "Outlaw Country" music, and writing a script for a found-footage time travel dinosaur horror movie.