Aaron Tainter
Engineer at Hacker Shack YouTube Channel (formerly "Hacker House")
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Tainter is an engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and developer platforms, currently working at WorkOS and based in Phoenix, Arizona. He led design and implementation of a Zanzibar-inspired authorization system at Carta that returned permission checks under 10ms and drove adoption with a permissions-visualization UI. Prior roles at eBay include architecting high-throughput commerce frontends and rebuilding AI orchestration services to improve concurrency and latency by orders of magnitude. He’s also an independent creator behind the Hacker Shack YouTube channel (150k+ subscribers, 10M views), producing hardware and coding tutorials that showcase his ability to translate complex technical concepts for broad audiences. Comfortable across Python/Django, React, Kubernetes, Scala and systems-level tooling, Aaron blends backend distributed-systems expertise with practical developer platform and frontend experience. His work habitually focuses on measurably reducing operational burden—whether via platform scaffolding, CI/CD patterns, or performance-first architecture.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (132)
motion-tracking10
hybrid10
swiftui10
javascript10
browser10
camera10
compiler10
swift10
job-queue10
static-site-generator10
locked10
security-camera10
macos10
ios10
okta10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
HackerShackOfficial/Smart-Mirror
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Raspberry powered mirror which can display news, weather, calendar events
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 11 PRs in 5 months
raspberry-pieventscalendarraspberrycalendar-events
HackerShackOfficial/Smartphone-Doorlock
Jan 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 4 months
smartphoneandroiddoorlocklocked
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