Aaron Shekey
Designer at Hum
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Shekey is a product designer and startup founder with 11 years of experience crafting user interfaces and design systems for developer-first products and consumer apps. He co-founded Hum, built a widely praised songwriting iPhone app, and has held senior design roles at GitHub, Stack Overflow, and ngrok where he shipped features like code review tooling, dark mode, onboarding flows, and a redesigned documentation system. At Stack Overflow he led front-end efforts and rebuilt user profiles from the ground up, and at ngrok he improved docs UX including typography, theming, and navigation for a popular developer tool. Currently at Ditto, he continues to blend product thinking with hands-on front-end execution while leading creative projects outside tech as the organizer of the band The Usual Things. Based in Minneapolis, Aaron brings a designer’s eye to engineering problems and a musician’s sensibility for collaboration and rhythm in product teams.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Science - BS, Graphic Design at University of Minnesota
Stackoverflow
901reputation
39kreached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (15)
css10
docusaurus10
ui-design10
typography10
responsive-design9
darkmode8
objective-c6
ios6
svg6
uisearchbar6
uibutton6
css-variables6
documentation6
scopes6
javascript4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ngrok/ngrok-docs
Oct 2023 - Oct 2024
ngrok's official documentation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 12 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the visual presentation of the documentation. They implemented changes related to font styling, including mapping custom font weights and integrating "Nunito Sans" for improved readability. Furthermore, the user refined the navigation bar, applied color theming for light and dark modes, and adjusted the overall styling of the documentation's content cards and various elements, such as the search bar, to align with design explorations.
ngrok
StackExchange/Stacks-Icons
May 2017 - Mar 2022
Authoring tools for Stack Overflow's shared icon set.
Contributions:65 releases, 3 reviews, 539 commits in 4 years 10 months
authoringiconstack-overflowicon-seticons
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