Summary
Aaron Strick is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of industry experience and a recent focus on interactive learning products at Brilliant.org. He combines hands-on front-end expertise with product and team leadership, having advanced from individual contributor roles to engineering manager roles where he hired and mentored multiple engineers and owned end-to-end feature delivery. His background is unusually eclectic—linguistics training, fieldwork in Kenya, and even teaching kindergarten—which informs a strong emphasis on clear communication, pedagogy-aware UX, and thoughtful problem framing. At NoRedInk he improved hiring rigor and built internal tools that supported cross-functional teams, and at Fictiv and Brilliant he specialized in shipping polished interactive interfaces. He is comfortable moving between code, infrastructure, and people processes to turn ambiguous product needs into measurable outcomes. Colleagues would describe him as a practical architect who favors shipping user-focused solutions informed by real-world teaching and research experience.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Linguistics, Bachelor's degree Linguistics at Boston University