Aaron Ranard
Principal Software Engineer at Zillow
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Ranard is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building accessible, responsive web experiences and leading teams from early-stage products to large-scale platforms. Currently at Zillow, he combines front-end craftsmanship (HTML5/CSS3, responsive/mobile-first design, typography) with backend proficiency in PHP/Laravel and AWS-hosted services. He has led product and engineering teams using Agile/SCRUM, balancing delivery cadence with test-covered, production-quality code. His open-source contributions include back-end enhancements to the popular Laravel Chatter forum package, showing attention to both architecture and UX details. Prior roles span ad tech, SaaS, and WordPress/Laravel consultancy, reflecting a knack for shipping zero-downtime deployments and measurable analytics-driven UX improvements. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he pairs visual design roots and user research experience with pragmatic engineering to make content shine across devices.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - Art Art Education, Bachelor of Science - Art Art Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (12)
database-migrations10
php10
database-migration10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
eloquent-orm8
forum8
event-emitter7
event-sourcing7
eventing7
eventsource7
configuration-management7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thedevdojo/chatter
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Chatter is a Simple Laravel Forum Package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Laravel forum package. Their work involved adding and modifying event listeners related to discussions and responses, integrating soft deletes for discussions and posts, and adjusting the discussion slug generation. They also added configuration options related to ordering and pagination. The user also focused on minor UI/UX tweaks.
laravelchatterforumlaravel-forum
niolabs/gitbook-plugin-theme-nio
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
nio styled theme for gitbook documentation
Contributions:51 commits, 36 PRs, 40 pushes in 8 months
gitbook
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