Aaron Stephens
Acting Director - Service Delivery Quality at Sound Transit
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Stephens is a civil engineering and quality assurance leader with 11 years of experience delivering rigorous quality oversight across major transportation projects in the Seattle region, currently serving as Corridor Quality Manager at Sound Transit. He has led quality programs for light rail corridors and the SR99 bored tunnel, driving development of agency-wide procedures, NCR templates, training, and a centralized KPI database that turned field observations into data-driven improvements. Known for bridging field inspection detail with program-level strategy, he routinely coordinates with contractors, FTA PMOC, designers, and multi-discipline teams to ensure compliance and continuous improvement. His background spans hands-on fabrication and inspection work through to managing quality staff and consultants, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on construction quality. Outside traditional construction work, he contributes as a full-stack developer to the popular Textual Python project—demonstrating a knack for tooling and automation that complements his process-improvement focus. Based in Seattle, he combines deep technical rigor with practical program leadership to reduce risk and improve deliverables on complex infrastructure projects.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science Civil Engineering, Associate of Science Civil Engineering at North Idaho CollegeBachelor of Science Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering at Gonzaga University
Github Skills (11)
application-framework10
tui10
app-framework10
web-framework10
web-widgets10
widgets10
python10
cli10
rich-text-editor9
rich-editor9
rich-text9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Textualize/textual
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
The lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 10 commits, 12 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the `textual` project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the data table widget. Their work included adding reactive values, initializing attributes, and addressing issues related to widget initialization. They also made general improvements to the code, such as fixing formatting and refactoring to align with the project's coding style.
pythonterminaltuicliframework
aaronst/textual
Oct 2022 - Sep 2023
Textual is a TUI (Text User Interface) framework for Python inspired by modern web development.
Contributions:36 pushes, 12 branches in 11 months
user-interfacepython310pythontext-user-interfacetextual
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