Aaron Gunderson is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building production systems from the ground up, currently leading engineering at a reverse-logistics startup in Cambridge. He was the first engineering hire at Tern, architecting consumer web and React Native apps, OCR and PDF data-extraction services, and shaping a small team toward a data analysis platform. His background spans robotics control and visualization, real-time UIs, Elixir, Postgres, and full-stack backend tooling from roles at Skylla and BookBub, showing comfort across distributed systems and hardware-adjacent software. Aaron combines hands-on coding with tech leadership—shipping practical automation and navigation features that make complex systems operable with a click or tap. Outside product work he’s repeatedly founded and mentored engineering initiatives, reflecting a passion for teaching and turning research-level ideas into deployed solutions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Contributions:153 commits, 3 PRs, 82 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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Aaron Gunderson - Senior Software Engineer at Tern