Aaron Goin
Director Of Engineering at PolyAPI
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Goin is a Director of Engineering based in Portland with 11 years of experience as a full-stack developer who specializes in TypeScript and React-driven frontends. He combines hands-on coding with team leadership, having progressed from research in distributed ML training and client-side WebNN experiments to leading engineering and product architecture at Talentpair and PolyAPI. Known for pragmatic, holistic systems thinking, he focuses on shipping maintainable UIs, improving developer productivity, and embedding analytics into product decisions. Aaron also contributes to open-source React tooling—refining components like react-sticky by simplifying dependencies and improving examples—illustrating his preference for clean, practical solutions that help teams move faster.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Washington State University VancouverComputer Science, Computer Science at Clark College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (4)
react10
javascript10
html9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
captivationsoftware/react-sticky
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
<Sticky /> component for awesome React apps
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on refining the `react-sticky` component and its example usage. Their contributions involved removing unnecessary dependencies (like `raf`), refactoring code to use React's inline styles for simplicity, and cleaning up the example app. They also made improvements to the HTML documentation within the example directory.
react-appsreactscrollable
aarongoin/aarongoin.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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