Aaron Ortbals
Co-Founder at Finalpoint
Reno, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Ortbals is a seasoned engineering leader and co-founder with 13 years of experience turning product visions into shipped software, currently building Quests, an open-source local app builder. He has a track record scaling and recruiting high-performing full‑stack teams, having led engineering at Postlight through rapid growth and its acquisition into NTT DATA before guiding global JavaScript and web platform strategy at Launch. Equally comfortable in the codebase and the C-suite, he blends hands-on full‑stack expertise with strategic architecture and delivery coaching for top clients. Based in Reno, Nevada, Aaron’s background in electrical engineering and embedded systems informs a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to product and platform tradeoffs. Notably, he continues to drive open-source tooling through the Quests project, emphasizing local-first app development.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering Minor Computer Science Digital Electronics; Embedded Systems; Software Engineering; Leadership Studies, B.S. Electrical Engineering Minor Computer Science Digital Electronics; Embedded Systems; Software Engineering; Leadership Studies at Kansas State University
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Github Skills (105)
javascript9
linux9
windows9
ember9
emberjs9
data-loading9
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wildcard9
react-ace9
ace9
fetch9
graphql-js9
code-editor8
ai8
app-builder8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SarahPythonista/southwest-checkin
Dec 2012 - May 2013
Contributions:58 commits in 5 months
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aortbals/github-stars-to-pinboard
Sep 2019 - Jul 2020
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Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 months
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