Aaron Grider
Senior Software Engineer at SpaceX
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Grider is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building pixel-perfect, high-performance mobile apps across iOS, Android, and React Native. Currently at SpaceX after leading mobile engineering efforts at Tesla, he has driven codebase modernization, React Native upgrades, developer ergonomics, and performance improvements that reduced build and launch times. Aaron led cross-functional teams to move complex user flows from web to mobile, built shared design systems and component libraries, and owned CI/infrastructure at scale for thousands of app configurations. He is a primary maintainer and contributor to the popular react-native-camera-kit project, modernizing it across platforms and migrating it to TypeScript. Comfortable across native and cross-platform stacks, Aaron pairs deep platform expertise with a focus on developer productivity and pragmatic architectural improvements.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at University of MichiganBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Seattle Pacific University
English
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Github Skills (8)
camera10
ios10
react-native10
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
r6
swift4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
teslamotors/react-native-camera-kit
Oct 2020 - May 2021
A high performance, easy to use, rock solid camera library for React Native apps.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:6 releases, 18 reviews, 96 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on implementing features and making changes specific to the iOS platform within the React Native camera library. Their work involved adding a preview to the iOS simulator, refactoring the iOS camera API, and removing unused API features. They also converted the project to TypeScript and refactored example code, and addressed build errors. These changes centered around improving and maintaining the iOS implementation.
react-native-appreact-nativeiosandroidcamera
SPUDevelopers/Naturalize
Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
A Cocos2d-x turn based strategy game.
Contributions:33 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 months
cocos2d-x
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