Aaron Vanderlip
Engineering Manager at Instinct Science
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Vanderlip is an experienced engineering manager with 16 years of hands-on and leadership experience building web and cloud-native applications from early-stage projects to mature product teams. Based in Eugene, Oregon, he has led distributed teams at organizations like Heap, O'Reilly Media, and HashiCorp, focusing on developer experience, observability, and modernizing microservice deployments with Docker, Kubernetes, and Traefik. He combines a practical engineering background in Python/Django and React with strong people leadership—mentoring engineers, navigating reorganizations, and integrating cross-functional teams to improve code quality and morale. A pragmatic open-source advocate, Aaron has a history of improving developer workflows and local microservice tooling that quietly accelerate team productivity. He brings a research-minded curiosity from a sociology background and post-bac computer science training, which informs his collaborative, integrity-driven approach to building resilient systems. Currently building engineering at Instinct Science, he blends product-focused delivery with a hands-on ethos.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Bac Computer Science, Post-Bac Computer Science at Southern Oregon UniversityBS Sociology, BS Sociology at Portland State University
Github Skills (75)
jupyter-notebook10
python-data10
pandas9
python9
autocomplete9
matplotlib9
scikit-learn9
jupyter9
django8
science8
hashicorp8
plone8
login-system8
authentication8
voting8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ghdonline/django-intercom-io
May 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:4 pushes in 7 months
pythondjangodjango-sitepluggableintercom
aaronvanderlip/tleave
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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