Aaron Huntsman
Senior Software Engineer at TaskRabbit
Zionsville, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Huntsman is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems, currently at TaskRabbit and previously contributing at New Relic and Tangoe. He brings deep Ruby/Rails expertise, demonstrated by substantive contributions to the widely used New Relic Ruby agent—fixing Rails 6.1+ ActiveRecord instrumentation, Resque integration, and distributed tracing support. Comfortable in both development and QA roles, he focuses on bug fixes, refactoring, and test-driven improvements that keep production telemetry accurate. Based in Zionsville, Indiana, he pairs a Rose-Hulman computer science foundation with practical enterprise and startup experience. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge legacy systems and modern observability. He quietly excels at smoothing operational rough edges that often slip past feature-driven teams.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (7)
ruby10
ruby-rails10
rails10
agent10
testing10
resque9
error-handling9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
New Relic RPM Ruby Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:1 release, 58 reviews, 82 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the New Relic Ruby Agent, specifically addressing issues related to Rails instrumentation and Resque integration. Their work included updating the agent to handle changes in ActiveRecord instrumentation in Rails 6.1+ and ensuring proper support for Resque's FORK_PER_JOB option. They also contributed to refactoring error handling, adding tests, and enabling distributed tracing configurations.
agentrpmapm-agentrubyruby-agent
amhuntsman/vestal_versions
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
Keep a DRY history of your ActiveRecord models' changes
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 year 8 months
ruby-on-railskeeppagerdutyrailsruby
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