Summary
Aaron Rice is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building production systems across startups and high-scale product teams, currently contributing at Substack in San Diego. His background spans real-time communications at TokBox, autonomy engineering at Cruise Automation, and platform work for media and events at Live Nation and Fiskkit, showing comfort across front-end, back-end, and systems-level challenges. A Hack Reactor alum with an earlier analytical foundation as an Operations Research Analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense, he brings a data-driven approach to software design and problem solving. Known for adapting quickly between fast-paced startups and complex engineering organizations, he pairs pragmatic delivery with a curiosity for real-time and safety-critical systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Hack Reactor
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Finance, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Finance at Oakland University