Aaron Loes
Galt, California, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Loes is a seasoned full-stack application developer with 15 years of professional experience and a decade focused on building and maintaining both large- and small-scale applications for internal and external users. He combines requirements gathering, architecture, development, testing, and deployment into a pragmatic, end-to-end engineering practice informed by an MS in Software Engineering and a BS in Computer Science. Based in Galt, California, Aaron brings particular strength in backend systems—evidenced by contributions to the Flyingsaucer Java XHTML/CSS renderer where he improved language handling, glyph error recovery, and font support. Comfortable across the stack, he’s equally adept at translating business needs into reliable production software and iterating on core libraries to improve robustness. Quietly detail-oriented, he often improves systems by addressing subtle internationalization and rendering edge cases that others miss.
15 years of coding experience
Masters of Science, Software Engineering, Masters of Science, Software Engineering at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Minnesota Duluth
English
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Github Skills (17)
java10
javas10
itext10
font-rendering10
pdf-render10
pdf-rendering10
css9
xml9
knockoutjs6
spring-boot6
jquery6
spring6
python6
ajax6
javascript6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer
Apr 2011 - Jan 2012
XML/XHTML and CSS 2.1 renderer in pure Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the core logic of the XHTML renderer, focusing on improving the handling of language-specific content and character glyphs. They updated the code to correctly identify the default language based on document metadata and implemented improved error handling for missing characters in the rendering process. These changes involved modifying core classes and integrating configuration properties to enhance the rendering capabilities and address potential rendering issues. The user also added support for additional fonts.
cssjavaxhtmlxml
loesak/esque
Mar 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:5 releases, 14 PRs, 70 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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