Aaron Lidman
Senior Engineering Manager at Webflow
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Lidman is a Senior Engineering Manager in Seattle with 13 years of experience building and leading teams that ship data-driven UI and tooling for mapping and autonomous systems. He moved from hands-on full‑stack and front-end work—improving OpenStreetMap and Mapbox editors and building robust Node.js data pipelines—to managing multi-team efforts at Aurora focused on perception data labeling, simulation, and real-time visualization. At Mapbox he led telemetry engineering that transformed historical and live GPS into navigation products, and his open-source contributions to high-profile projects like iD and the name-suggestion-index reflect a rare blend of UX polish and backend data processing. Known for taking messy, large-scale geographic data and turning it into reliable systems, he pairs product-minded leadership with deep technical empathy for both engineers and data annotators.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. History, B.A. History at University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (28)
openstreetmap10
json10
editors10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
python10
leaflet10
css10
rails10
user-interface10
ui-design10
editor10
ruby10
mappings10
osb10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/mapbox.js
Jan 2014 - Jan 2016
Mapbox JavaScript API, a Leaflet Plugin
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on updating and modifying the layout and content of the Mapbox.js documentation website. They made changes to the default layout, including modifications to the header and navigation elements. Their contributions also included enhancements to the plugin section and updating example files. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the user interface and organization of the documentation.
leafletapimapboxleaflet-plugindocs-site
osmlab/name-suggestion-index
Oct 2013 - Aug 2017
Canonical common brand names, operators, transit and flags for OpenStreetMap.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on building a data processing pipeline for OpenStreetMap data. They started by experimenting with Bash and Python scripts for parsing OSM data and extracting relevant information. The user then transitioned to using Node.js to build a more robust and scalable system for processing and outputting the data into a structured JSON format, while incorporating improvements like data sorting and UTF-8 encoding.
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