Aaron Itzkovitz
Software Engineer at Polygon.io
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Itzkovitz is a software engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building full-stack web systems and cloud-native services. He currently contributes to Polygon.io and has led development teams previously at Visually Sold, bringing hands-on expertise in Go, Python, C++, C#, PHP, JavaScript frameworks, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP). His dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Audio Production reflect a rare blend of technical rigor and creative problem-solving, and he pursued graduate studies in CS at Georgia Tech. Aaron has tackled both backend infrastructure and frontend concerns across finance, academia, and media domains, demonstrating an ability to move between low-latency services and user-facing features. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who mentors others and reliably ships production-ready systems. An interesting aside: his background in audio production often informs his approach to system design, emphasizing clarity, signal-to-noise, and iterative refinement.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Kennesaw State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.75, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.75 at Middle Tennessee State UniversityThe Weber SchoolMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Recording Industry Management: Audio Production, 3.75, Bachelor's degree, Recording Industry Management: Audio Production, 3.75 at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
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Github Skills (31)
stock-data10
trading10
polygon10
websocket10
api10
forex-trading10
python9
options-trading9
rest9
golang9
rest-api9
kotlin8
go8
java8
jvm6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
polygon-io/gzip
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Gin middleware to enable GZIP support.
Contributions:2 releases, 9 reviews, 4 PRs in 3 days
golanggingzipmiddlewaregin-middleware
aitzkovitz/vs-am-plugin
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:34 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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