Aaron Bassett
Co-Founder, Chief Developer Education Engineer
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Bassett is a Principal Software Engineer and co-founder who blends 15+ years of hands-on development with a decade focused on developer education and relations, currently leading developer education at Accelerate Polkadot. He builds and teaches practical blockchain tooling—Substrate and ink! smart contracts—after graduating top of his cohort at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy and returning as an instructor. Equally comfortable writing Rust, Python, and TypeScript, Aaron has driven SDKs, integrations, and high-quality developer experiences at Parity, New Relic, and MongoDB, and has a track record of shipping production-grade plugins and complex integrations. A long-time open-source and community leader, he’s served in leadership roles for the Django Software Foundation and contributed across Python communities. Based in Miami, he combines conference keynotes, workshops, and mentorship to make complex systems accessible and to grow the next generation of engineers.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Coleraine Academical Institution
Stackoverflow
328reputation
25kreached
6answers
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Github Skills (184)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aaronbassett/aaronbassett
Jul 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
aaronbassett/sometimes
Jan 2013 - Feb 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push in 3 years
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