Aaron Labrie
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Labrie is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing web products and internal developer tooling. He has driven greenfield front-end projects, accessible localized component libraries, and infrastructure and deployment systems at companies from startups to GitHub, where he now contributes to Copilot. Aaron blends strong full-stack skills—React, Go, backend services and deployment pipelines—with hands-on leadership: mentoring, cross-team collaboration, and running engineering summits to reduce knowledge silos. His background includes shipping features for products serving millions of users and modernizing legacy systems, reflecting a pragmatic focus on performance, accessibility, and long-term maintainability. Notably, he has moved comfortably between design/UX iteration and backend service design, making him effective at taking features from MVP to polished production.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Incomplete Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science, Incomplete Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Stackoverflow
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5kreached
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Github Skills (47)
github-api9
viewcomponent9
slash-commands9
js-client9
client-library8
react8
shipit8
slack-commands8
golang7
data-api7
e-mail7
slack7
telegram-bot7
exchange7
analyticsjs7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AaronLaBrie/slashy
Nov 2015 - Feb 2021
Slashy - A collection of dumb slack commands.
Contributions:21 PRs, 165 pushes, 15 branches in 5 years 3 months
slack-commandsslackslash-commands
BigDadBear/connections
Jan 2024 - Jun 2025
NYT Connections Game Clone
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
clonereacttypescriptword-games
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