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Robert Austin, Front-end software engineer with 14+ years exp. Hybrid UX designer / product engineer. I consult for startups remotely anywhere in the world. I'm currently based in Brisbane, Australia.

Selected Work

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Relume

Working at Relume, an early stage Sydney startup. Building the worlds largest React, Tailwind, Shadcn component library.

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Wicked Blocks

A free collection of components and blocks for Tailwind. ~5K visitors a month.

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Wicked Templates

Selling Tailwind themes and UI Kits - MRR~$1000

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Built At Lightspeed

A marketplace of 5000+ templates, themes and ui-kits for modern site generators - MRR~$1000

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Stackbit

SF startup building a visual editor for Next.js and Headless CMS. Acquired by Netlify. I worked here for 4 years as a founding engineer.

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Zerostatic Themes

A template company I founded that sells premium themes. Bootstraped over many years - MRR~$1500.

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Piggybank

Worked for a London based fintech startup. Lead developer on the front-end team building a React SPA.

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Opensource Themes

I maintain a collection of open source themes for Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Next.js and Astro

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How I Built Jamstack Themes

A Netlify guest post.

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Jamstack Themes

Created and maintained the largest Opensource Jamstack and SSG directory. Hundreds of users a day. Massive organic success.

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Autodesk

Worked for Autodesk in San Francisco. Building a CSS framework, living style guide, and design system.

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Justus Art Gallery

I ran an art gallery for a few years. Bi monthly exhibitions presented in an old courthouse.