Aaron Thornton
Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead at Storypark
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Thornton is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead with 14 years of hands-on experience building and scaling Ruby on Rails products, currently leading a small engineering team at Storypark from Wellington. He combines deep backend expertise with modern front-end skills (Vue.js, Vuex, Vuetify) and a strong testing practice (RSpec, Cucumber), which he applies to refactor legacy code and deliver sustainable feature growth. Aaron has a track record in collaborative, UX-driven projects—contributing to Loomio’s decision-making platform by improving voting logic and UI presentation—and regularly uses Shape Up, Agile and lean practices to keep teams focused. He mentors engineers, scopes architecture and drives principal engineering work while balancing product UX and developer productivity. With a BSc in Computer Science and a multimedia diploma, he brings both technical rigor and design empathy to complex web applications.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
dip Multimedia Studies, Animation & 3D-modeling, dip Multimedia Studies, Animation & 3D-modeling at Natcoll school of designBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (7)
version-control10
mvc-architecture10
rails10
database-design10
ruby-on-rails10
html9
css9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
loomio/loomio
Mar 2012 - Aug 2015
Loomio is a collaborative decision making tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1974 commits, 26 PRs, 51 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Aaron appears to be a back-end developer focused on enhancing the Loomio collaborative decision-making tool. Their commits primarily involve modifications to controller logic, database models, and related stylesheet adjustments, with a focus on refining core functionalities. Specific contributions include improvements to the voting system through intuitive design, including setting close dates, as well as adjusting the presentation of user interfaces.
decision-makingcollaborativedecision
mixmix/loomio
Oct 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:172 commits in 11 months
groupsdecisionsweb-application
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