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ABOUT●CHICAGO, IL●13+ YEARS ACROSS THE STACK

Austin Biggs

Staff software engineer and technical leader. Driven by problem-solving, working at the intersection of hands-on engineering and leadership.

Austin Biggs, staff software engineer
01 · THE STORY

Three acts,
thirteen years.

Every act taught a different layer of the same craft: the product, the platform, the people.

JOURNEY BEFORE DESTINATION
ACT I · THE FOUNDER3+ YEARS

Klik Denver · Founder & Creative Director

Built a digital-marketing agency from zero: a team of seven, eighteen client projects at a 97% on-time rate, a 34% revenue climb, creative direction across nine brands. Where code first met product, revenue, and taste.

ACT II · THE PLATFORM160+ ENGINEERS

Handshake · Tech Lead, Frontend Platform

Guided architectural decisions for a platform supporting 160+ engineers. Built Rosetta, championed GraphQL at enterprise scale, and turned knowledge-sharing into infrastructure.

ACT III · THE STAFF ENGINEERNOW

Assured · Staff Engineer

Moved between an engineering-management stretch and a staff IC role. Lately: image and video infrastructure. Data pipelines, geospatial queries, CDN and object-storage architecture, zero-downtime migrations.

02 · NOW

Currently.

UPDATED JUL 2026
BUILDING

Image and video infrastructure at Assured — pipelines, geospatial queries, CDN and object-storage architecture.

WRITING

First posts for the blog — design systems, schema-driven UI, and what founding an agency taught me about staff work.

MENTORING

Pairing sessions and career conversations with early-career engineers. Inbox open — the fastest team is the one that teaches itself.

03 · EXPERIENCE

The record.

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WHERE I'VE BUILT
APR 2025 — PRESENT
SF BAY AREA · REMOTE

Staff Software Engineer · Assured

ENGINEERING MANAGER · JUN–NOV 2025
  • Building image and video infrastructure: data pipelines, CDN and object-storage architecture on Cloudflare R2 and Supabase.
  • Designed geospatial query systems on PostGIS; led database migrations with zero downtime; built notification systems.
  • Stepped into a six-month engineering-management stretch, then returned to staff IC scope as the org needed.
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FEB 2024 — JUN 2024
CHICAGO, IL

Staff Software Engineer · AdaMarie

  • Designed and built the enterprise and consumer experiences for the job-listings marketplace, AdaMarie's core product, on AWS.
  • Architected a new authentication and authorization system (NextAuth, JWT, Amazon Cognito) with zero user downtime.
  • Owned the frontend platform; introduced Nx monorepo tooling for modular workflows and faster CI.
  • Served on a CEO-initiated task force with sales and marketing to define a roadmap that drove business growth.
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JAN 2019 — FEB 2024
SF BAY AREA · REMOTE
5 YRS 2 MOS · 3 ROLES

Handshake

Senior Software Engineer + Tech Lead · Frontend Platform
FEB 2022 — FEB 2024
  • Tech lead for the Frontend Platform team supporting 160+ engineers.
  • Built and maintained Rosetta: 135+ components, three themes, Storybook-driven development and docs.
  • Shipped a schema-driven multi-step forms generator and a state-machine-driven headless search-filtering API.
  • Drove tooling adoption: GraphQL Code Generator, Apollo Client, Chromatic, Docusaurus, Renovate, Sanity.
Senior Software Engineer · Enterprise Product
JUN 2021 — FEB 2022
  • Architected and led frontend development for Candidate Hub, the CRM handling ~20% of all bulk employer messages.
  • Pioneered GraphQL adoption on the Enterprise platform; refreshed the bulk-action system and candidate filters.
Software Engineer · Enterprise Product
JAN 2019 — JUN 2021
  • Domain expert for React and TypeScript on the Employer team.
  • LGBTQ+ ERG and community leader for three years; founded the GraphQL learning guild; ran engineering Lunch & Learns.
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SEP 2016 — JAN 2019
DENVER, CO

Lead Software Engineer · Virtuance

  • Led a team building a scalable SaaS platform for real-estate marketing, aligning product strategy with the CEO, CTO, and Marketing.
  • Developed the cloud strategy and implemented an enterprise-grade platform on Google Cloud.
  • Architected an in-browser website and brochure builder; designed the platform's UI/UX; ran eCommerce across four verticals.
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NOV 2014 — DEC 2017
DENVER, CO

Founder & Creative Director · Klik Denver

3+ YEARS
  • Founded and ran a digital-marketing agency; grew the team to seven and drove a 34% revenue increase.
  • Delivered 18 client projects at a 97% on-time rate; led creative direction across nine independent brands.
  • Scaled a client's website to ~28k daily unique visitors; designed 12 websites focused on usability, SEO, and conversion.
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DEC 2012 — NOV 2014
WICHITA, KS

Web Developer · cb{d} Cassandra Bryan Design

  • Developed 30+ custom WordPress sites in PHP and JavaScript: store locators, catalogs, member networks, product customizers.
  • Administered hosting for 45+ websites at a 99% uptime guarantee; managed setup and training for 200+ email accounts.
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04 · CONTACT

Let's build the
next act.

Building something at the frontier, or hiring the person who will? Reach out.