Aaron Freidus
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at BetterHelp
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Freidus is a senior software leader with a decade of experience taking products from 0 to 1 and building remote-first engineering teams across Hong Kong, Mexico, Germany, India, Ukraine, and the US. Currently Senior Director of Software Engineering at BetterHelp and CTO at UpLift (acquired by Teladoc Health), he blends hands-on full‑stack engineering with strategic leadership in Healthcare, IoT, and GIS domains. He has repeatedly stood up engineering functions, automated clinical and RCM workflows, and driven EMR and partner integrations to scale care delivery. Known for cross-cultural communication and a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach, he routinely improves platform performance and developer hiring processes. Outside of full-time roles he advises startups on UI/UX, architecture, and staffing for medical device and healthcare software. His background in Japanese studies and early international roles informs a nuanced, global perspective on product adoption and team dynamics.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Horace Mann SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Japanese Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Japanese Language and Literature at The George Washington UniversitySophia University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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100kreached
27answers
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Github Skills (61)
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nodejs10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Regal-Tephra/Hack-Roulette
May 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:50 PRs, 30 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 4 months
shadowfool/screenshot_bot_lambda
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:5 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 5 months
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