Aaron Carver
Co-Founder And CTO at CHRT, Inc.
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Carver is a Co-Founder and CTO with six years of engineering and leadership experience building production-grade web and AI systems from California. He designs, builds, and deploys full-stack TypeScript/Python applications and has shipped AI/ML and LLM-powered services, including FedRAMP-High compatible APIs for defense clients. A former McKinsey business analyst and Teach For America math teacher, he blends product strategy, operational rigor, and hands-on implementation across frontend, backend, and ML. Aaron contributes to open-source observability work—improving UI and network/error tooling in the popular highlight.io project—demonstrating attention to developer UX and debugging at scale. He took a deliberate sabbatical to refocus on learning before joining YC-backed CHRT as CTO, signaling both curiosity and founder mindset. His background in chemical engineering and computational science informs a data-driven, systems-oriented approach to building reliable software.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Chemical Engineering with Highest Honors, Chemical Engineering with Highest Honors at Texas Tech UniversityY CombinatorComputational Science, Computational Science at Wolfram Summer School
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Github Skills (14)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
frontend10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
css9
trace7
tracer7
monitoring7
apm7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
highlight/highlight
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
highlight.io: The open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Error monitoring, session replay, logging, distributed tracing, and more.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 19 commits, 13 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on enhancing the front-end user interface and functionality of the application. They implemented features within the player's network and error tabs, including adding a "goto timestamp" button, and integrating network request filtering and display of request counts by type. The commits also involved updating the display of request names and implementing a latency field with status filtering. The changes mainly involve modifying React components and Typescript code.
monitorhighlightfull-stackdockergrafana
aaronmaxcarver/aaronmaxcarver.github.io
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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