Aaron Newton
Chief Data Officer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Newton is a seasoned product and data leader with 17 years of experience building customer-focused platforms and turning observation into measurable business impact. As Chief Data Officer (and previously Chief Product Officer) at Thanx, he blends product strategy, analytics, and hands-on design to drive data-driven loyalty solutions for merchants and consumers. His career spans founding startups (Epitonic, Iminta), shaping UX for big-data tooling at Cloudera (including naming and designing core Hadoop apps like Hue), and long-standing open-source front-end contributions to projects such as MooTools and Hue. Aaron pairs creative design instincts—rooted in early work in jazz photography and product design—with technical execution, from front-end enhancements to managing engineering teams. Known for shipping cohesive user experiences and pragmatic data products, he also surfaces sharp insights and “hot takes” from his team’s research. Based in San Francisco, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a rare blend of product, design, and data leadership.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Jazz Photography, Jazz Photography at Fine Arts CenterUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (13)
html10
dom-manipulation10
javascript10
user-interface10
mootools10
form-validation9
front-end-development9
ajax9
css9
autocomplete8
ui-designer8
editors6
editor6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mootools/mootools-more
Jan 2009 - Aug 2014
MooTools Plugins and Enhancements Repository
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1214 commits, 28 comments in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Aaron made several changes to the MooTools-more repository, primarily focusing on the UI and accessibility of the library. Their contributions include implementing new methods to manage visibility, as well as adding and integrating new validators. Furthermore, they updated the code to incorporate more modern techniques.
mootools
mootools/mootools-core
Mar 2009 - Jul 2014
MooTools Core Repository
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:129 commits, 12 comments in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aaron's primary contribution revolved around enhancing the `Request.HTML` functionality within the MooTools Core repository. They added an `append` option, allowing for dynamic content injection. Further refinements included conditional logic improvements and code refactoring. The user also addressed a typo, checking that returned HTML parses correctly and implemented some performance improvements by removing console logs.
mootools
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