Aaron Makaruk
Senior Product Designer at OSBeehives
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Makaruk is a senior product designer and entrepreneur who currently leads OSBeehives as CEO and Senior Product Designer, building a data-driven IoT platform for commercial beekeeping. He orchestrates cross-functional teams across software, hardware, and data science, launching two custom IoT devices and amassing a 2.5 million sensor readings dataset and 10 million audio recordings to monitor honey bee health. Under his leadership OSBeehives has deployed 2,000 devices with 10,000 users in 40+ countries and forged partnerships with the USDA, universities, and accelerator programs, while generating over $500k in revenue. Previously, he shaped Lowe's mobile app experience by developing iOS/Android design systems for a platform with over $1B ARR and 16 million users, including Apple Pay integrations. He has founded and steered multiple ventures—AKER Kits, Open Source Ecology, Youth On Record, Senate Apps—and has been a Shuttleworth Fellow, Brinc and Boomtown accelerator participant, reflecting a consistent pattern of rapid, impact-driven product delivery. He is based in Denver and holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Colorado Boulder, a combination that informs both strategic thinking and hands-on design.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Regis Jesuit High SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (55)
gulp-plugin9
gulp9
react8
bed8
spawn8
android8
javascript8
beehive8
react-native7
ios7
windows7
economy7
typescript7
linux7
frontend7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AKERKits/WormHaus
Mar 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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