Aaron Quint
Owner, Chef at Quirkey NYC, LLC
City of Kingston, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Quint is a seasoned technologist and hands-on engineering leader with 18 years building scalable web platforms, from early startups to leading Heroku’s Data engineering efforts. He co-founded and runs Quirkey NYC while also owning Kingston Bread + Bar, blending product-focused software craftsmanship with entrepreneurial and hospitality experience. A pragmatic back-end developer and open-source contributor, he has improved core Ruby tooling and job-tracking libraries (notably contributions to OAuth for Ruby, resque-status and Rugged bindings). Known for growing teams and shipping infrastructure from the ground up, he pairs deep technical refactoring skills with a taste for operational reliability and performance. Based in Kingston, NY, he brings a creative background in art history to inform pragmatic design choices and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA Art History Studio Art, BA Art History Studio Art at Brandeis University
English
Github Skills (27)
socket-io10
debugging10
git10
libgit210
resque10
redis10
http10
ruby10
libgit2sharp10
socket10
nethttp10
oauth10
test-automation10
api-design9
restful-api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
quirkey/resque-status
Jan 2010 - Mar 2015
resque-status is an extension to the resque queue system that provides simple trackable jobs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:140 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the development and testing of the `resque-status` library, which provides tracking functionality for Resque jobs. They implemented core features like creating, getting, and setting job statuses, and also designed a server interface. The user's work involved writing test cases, refactoring code, and enhancing the project's functionality to include a status management system with a web UI. Their contributions also included a mechanism to kill jobs.
resque
ruby-oauth/oauth
Oct 2010 - Sep 2012
🔑 A Ruby wrapper for OAuth 1.0, and 1.0a protocols; clients & servers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the OAuth for Ruby project by fixing bugs and refactoring code related to request proxies and how content types are handled. They addressed issues in multiple files, including those for Net::HTTP, EventMachine, Typhoeus, and ActionController requests. The changes included updates to gem dependencies, fixing tests, and updating the project version.
oauthruby-wrapperauthenticationauthorizationoauth-client
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