Aaron Shim
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Shim is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building secure, developer-friendly systems at scale, currently driving work at Google after prior roles at Microsoft. He focuses on making correctness and security obvious—reducing friction so developers and AI can create safely and quickly—and has scaled security frameworks to serve billions of users. A Yale-trained mathematician and computer scientist, Aaron combines rigorous reasoning with hands-on engineering, from hardening front-end renderers to improving server tooling. His open-source contributions include targeted security and performance improvements to high-profile projects like Airbnb’s lottie-web, where he removed insecure patterns to boost rendering quality across SVG and Canvas. Based in New York, he also brings operational experience managing support teams and production infrastructure across diverse environments.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Yale UniversityChoate Rosemary Hall
English, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (5)
lottie10
javascript10
front-end-development10
canvas7
svg7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
airbnb/lottie-web
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Render After Effects animations natively on Web, Android and iOS, and React Native. http://airbnb.io/lottie/
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on removing `.innerHTML` usage within various JavaScript files related to rendering animations. This involved modifying files such as `FontManager.js`, `AnimationManager.js`, `HybridRenderer.js`, `SVGRenderer.js`, and `CanvasRenderer.js` to improve rendering efficiency and potentially prevent security vulnerabilities. The changes suggest a focus on optimizing the rendering process of the Lottie animations across different rendering technologies like SVG and Canvas, improving the animation player's performance and codebase quality. The user also touched multiple core files within the `player/js` directory.
renderreactanimationafter-effectsextendscript
aaronshim/aaronshim.github.io
May 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 23 pushes, 7 branches in 9 years 4 months
jekylljekyll-theme
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