Aaron Smith
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Smith is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon with a decade of experience building core networking systems for AWS and a strong academic foundation from UNC Chapel Hill (MS/PhD work in Computer Science). He blends production-grade distributed systems engineering with hands-on teaching—having taught foundational and advanced programming and language theory courses—bringing clarity to complex technical concepts. Based in Durham, NC, Aaron has transitioned research and classroom rigor into scalable networking features at cloud scale. His background coordinating a Google-funded study and winning an REU research prize signals a knack for data-driven problem solving beyond routine engineering. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful designs that balance theoretical correctness with pragmatic shipping.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree BS in Mathematics and BS in Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree BS in Mathematics and BS in Computer Science at Coastal Carolina UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (42)
command-line-interface9
binding9
cli8
fetch8
ffi8
javascript7
ember-data7
data-loading7
html6
addon6
ember-cli-addon6
dictionary6
sql6
css6
typescript6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
onsmith/comp426-cli
Jun 2019 - Aug 2021
This is the command-line interface (cli) for COMP 426 taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. All assignments in COMP 426 must be submitted for grading using this tool.
Contributions:34 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 2 months
hillcommand-line-interfacenorthgradingnorth-carolina
onsmith/srt
Apr 2023 - Oct 2024
Up-to-date fork of the srt shared library with BELABOX changes
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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