Aaron Van Bokhoven
Lead Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Van Bokhoven is a pragmatic, collaborative software leader with 15 years building full-stack and platform systems, currently leading Platform Engineering at Real Geeks. He has progressed through hands-on roles at Real Geeks—from agent tools to internal tools—and brings deep Rails and React integration experience, including contributing to the notable react_on_rails project to improve server-side rendering, generators, and developer ergonomics. Based in Honolulu and Dallas, he combines startup grit (co-founding development shops) with enterprise delivery, shipping internal tools and platforms that boost team velocity. Known for balancing practicality with technical craft, he mentors teams to solve complex problems while keeping systems maintainable and developer-friendly.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Hawaii
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
rails10
webpack10
ruby10
webpacker10
ruby-on-rails10
react10
testing9
elasticsearch6
paperclip6
amazon-s36
cron6
delayed-job6
background-process6
whenever6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shakacode/react_on_rails
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Integration of React + Webpack + Rails including server-side rendering of React, enabling a better developer experience and faster client performance.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 14 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the integration of React with Rails, focusing on improving the developer experience and addressing generator-related issues. They addressed warning messages in the generator, refined generator messages, and added helpful messages after generator installation. Furthermore, the user updated the base generator, added tests, and enhanced the support for Turbolinks 5. Their contributions span across multiple aspects of the project, including configuration, generators, and testing.
railsreactserver-side-renderingwebpackreact-rails
aaronvb/logparams
Mar 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:12 releases, 25 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 4 months
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