Summary
Aaron Pettengill is a frontend-focused founding engineer with nine years of experience building pragmatic, developer-friendly web applications and design systems. He has driven measurable outcomes at scale—improving page load performance by 25%, reducing support complaints by 90% on a high-traffic AWS console feature, and fixing nearly 100 accessibility issues through hands-on testing. Comfortable across the full stack, Aaron has built core components, led teams, and shipped multi-screen, multi-step features while mentoring new hires and interns. He pairs a musician’s discipline with engineering rigor—years as a professional violinist and orchestra section lead inform his collaborative leadership and attention to craft. Now based in Maine, he focuses on making code that not only works but makes the next engineer more productive.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Thornton Academy
Bachelor of Music, Violin Performance, Bachelor of Music, Violin Performance at University of Southern Maine