Aaron Norby
Software Engineer at Ashby
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Norby is a software engineer and SRE/infrastructure generalist in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience bridging research-grade thinking and production engineering. After a PhD and postdoc in philosophy and cognitive science, he retrained at Hack Reactor and has shipped web platform and growth features at PlanGrid and Ashby while handling Postgres-centered infrastructure concerns. He contributes to open source front-end tooling—adding 3D and photo viewers and testing infrastructure to the react-file-viewer project—showing a pragmatic eye for UX and robustness. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and ops, he brings a researcher's rigor to debugging complex systems and an attention to user-facing details that often go unnoticed.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Philosophy, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy at University of California, BerkeleyComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Philosophy at Yale University
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
react10
testing8
css7
webpack6
webpacker6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
plangrid/react-file-viewer
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 37 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of file viewers within the `react-file-viewer` repository. Their work included adding a 3D viewer based on `wexbim`, integrating a photo viewer with image dimension handling, and creating a loading state for several file types. They also made updates to the demo application and added testing infrastructure. These contributions improved the viewer's functionality and user experience.
aaronnorby/Encompass
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:30 pushes, 29 branches in 1 month
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