Aaron Cohen
Senior Software Engineer at Attentive
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAaron Cohen is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, auditable systems and mentoring engineers across startups and scale-ups. He has led architecture and implementation of critical financial systems—payments, transfers, and dispute management—using Scala, Ruby, and event-driven microservices to enforce compliance and operational resilience. Aaron pairs front-end expertise in React with backend systems work, having shipped UI builders, experimentation frameworks, and substantial pipeline refactors that improved conversion and test coverage. He champions developer ergonomics through internal libraries, declarative testing patterns, and documentation to boost team velocity and consistency. An active mentor and open source maintainer, Aaron brings practical, cross-stack judgment from content and media platforms to fintech, and often focuses on making complex workflows observable and auditable. Based in Jersey City, he combines deep systems thinking with hands-on delivery and a proven track record of scaling both code and teams.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Vassar College
Github Skills (68)
uuid-generator10
uuid10
nanoid10
id-generation10
base6210
uid10
identifier10
unique-id10
bit10
guid10
ulid10
id-generator10
ksuid10
notable9
render8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aarondcohen/perl-set-functional
Jan 2015 - Jul 2020
fast lightweight functional interface to common set problems
Contributions:3 PRs, 11 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years 6 months
problemsfunctional-interfacefunctional-programming
aarondcohen/benchmark-guid
Mar 2018 - Oct 2020
Benchmark notable GUID implementations
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 8 months
implementationsbenchmarkingguidbenchmarkbenchmarks
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.