Aaron Rankin
Director at Aviary
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Rankin is a director and pragmatic technical contributor with 13 years of experience blending operational leadership, client-facing administration, and hands‑on back-end software work. He leads distributed teams to clear, auditable delivery while maintaining a meticulous eye for data quality and regulatory compliance across sectors from oil & gas field logging to public administration. Aaron has contributed to mature open-source Java projects such as Twitter4J, addressing API paging and streaming issues—evidence of his ability to dive into core libraries and improve robustness. Comfortable with technical tooling from GIS and well-log software to multimedia editing, he pairs high computer literacy with strong interpersonal skills developed through long-term remote collaboration. Based in the UK and trained at Imperial College London, he brings a steady, detail-oriented style that favors proactive communication and practical problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at Imperial College London
Github Skills (7)
javas10
rest-api10
api10
apidoc10
java10
twitter-api10
configuration-management9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Twitter4J/Twitter4J
Dec 2012 - Mar 2014
Twitter4J is an open-source Java library for the Twitter API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Twitter4J library, evidenced by modifications to core classes and configurations. Their work involved fixing a paging issue in the `statuses/retweets_of_me` API call and adding support for the `trim_user` parameter. They also implemented features to retrieve and handle "Targeting by Country" details. Moreover, the user made changes to the stream controller and status-related classes.
apijava-libraryjava-sourcetwitter4jtwitter-api-v2
arankin/barrneighbors-website
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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