Austin Horstman
Senior Software Engineer at NRI North America
Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Horstman is a Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of full‑stack experience modernizing legacy systems and shipping user-centric applications. At Core BTS (now NRI North America) he led efforts across Angular/NgRx frontends, Java and C# backends, and implemented JWT authentication and Kafka connectors for a high‑visibility mainframe replacement. He pairs cloud and DevOps skills—Azure with Bicep, Helm, Docker and Kubernetes—with systems-level work in Rust and the Nix ecosystem, where he maintains home-manager modules and built a shared Hyprland configuration generator. Known for mentoring engineers and driving agile process improvements, he blends pragmatic delivery with active open-source craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Support Specialist, Computer Support Specialist at Western Technical College - CompanyAssociate of Science (A.S.), IT Software Development, Associate of Science (A.S.), IT Software Development at Fox Valley Technical College
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (19)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
nix-community/home-manager
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:193 reviews, 299 PRs, 216 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Austin's commits primarily revolve around enhancing the home-manager configuration for the Hyprland window manager. They implemented a shared Hyprland configuration generator to streamline Hyprland ecosystem maintenance. Additionally, the user added and configured modules for Hypridle, Hyprlock, and Hyprpaper, which involve managing the user's desktop environment. The user also addressed minor improvements, refactoring, and test additions related to those and other supporting programs.
nix-dotfilesnixosmaintainerhome-managerdotfiles
khaneliman/ArchInstaller
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Automated Arch Linux Install
Contributions:79 commits, 31 PRs, 392 pushes in 9 months
arch-linux-installlinuxinstallerarchlinuxarch-linux
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