Aaron Qian
Software Engineering Consultant at Yeet.io
Burbank, California, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Qian is a software engineering consultant based in Burbank, California with 17 years of experience building backend systems and leading engineering teams across startups and mid-size companies. He has held senior and lead roles at organizations including PeerStreet, NationBuilder, and Cast & Crew, and currently consults at Yeet.io, bringing both hands-on implementation and architectural judgement. A pragmatic Ruby/Rails and backend specialist, he contributes to open-source projects like mongoid-history where he improved thread safety and complex association handling—work that underlines his attention to reliability in data models. Aaron pairs production engineering with hardware hobbyist curiosity and a practical entrepreneurial streak from co-founding CurbStreet. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering and Economics from UC Irvine and an associate degree in Computer Science, reflecting a mix of formal engineering and applied development training. Outside work he balances code with coffee-fueled tinkering and family life, encapsulated by his GitHub note: "Input Coffee ⚡ Output Code."
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate, Computer Science, Associate, Computer Science at Santa Monica CollegeUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (17)
rspec10
ruby10
mongoid10
mongodb10
object-mapping9
database-design9
orm9
ruby-on-rails9
open-source8
dependency-injection6
design-patterns6
error-handling6
visitor-pattern6
jquery6
spring6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mongoid/mongoid-history
Apr 2011 - Jan 2014
Multi-user non-linear history tracking, auditing, undo, redo for mongoid.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 4 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on improving the `mongoid-history` library, a gem for tracking changes in Mongoid models. Their contributions included fixing thread safety issues in the modifier hook, addressing issues related to association chain traversal, and refining the handling of embedded documents. They also removed trailing whitespace and empty modules, and added support for coveralls.
mongoid
OpenServoCore/open-servo-core
Jul 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:4 PRs, 176 pushes, 32 branches in 3 years
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