Aaron Raddon
Startup at Startup Company Name TBD
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Raddon is a seasoned software and product leader with 16 years building scalable web applications and data-driven products, currently leading a startup in Portland. As Co-founder and CTO of Lytics for over a decade he blended data science, machine learning and real-time activation to turn audience signals into marketing action at scale. He pairs hands-on engineering—contributing notable open-source Go work such as elastigo and dateparse and integrations to analytics.js—with product management and engineering leadership across teams of hundreds. His background spans analytics platforms, large-scale attribution systems using Hadoop/Cassandra and cloud-hosted services, as well as enterprise software delivery for half-million-user deployments. Known for pragmatic technical stewardship, he’s now focused on a novel low-level data platform that reflects his long-standing interest in efficient data ingestion and indexing.
16 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
apidoc10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
date-parsing10
web-analytics10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
integrate9
integrations9
timed9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
araddon/dateparse
Apr 2014 - Apr 2021
GoLang Parse many date strings without knowing format in advance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 204 commits, 60 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Aaron has been contributing to the `araddon/dateparse` repository, which focuses on parsing date strings in Go. Their primary contributions involve implementing and refining date parsing functionality by adding support for various date formats, including those with and without seconds, as well as supporting different timezone formats, including an additional timezone and fractional microsecond support. The commits show iterative improvements to the parsing logic, testing, and error handling across multiple date formats.
golangdatetimedates
mattbaird/elastigo
Dec 2012 - Jan 2014
A Go (golang) based Elasticsearch client library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Aaron focused on improving the `elastigo` library, specifically targeting the Elasticsearch client functionality. Their contributions involved refactoring code to use byte arrays, addressing aggressive logging behavior, and cleaning up logging statements. Furthermore, the user implemented bulk indexing capabilities, which included setting buffer sizes, creating a channel for sending bulk operations, and defining error handling. The user's work also included search DSL enhancements, such as supporting sorting, filtering, and range queries, improving the library's usability.
elasticsearch-clientgogolang
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