Aidan Coyle
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Coyle is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building robust full-stack systems for financial services and logistics, currently based in the Greater Chicago area. He brings deep expertise in Ruby, Go, and SQL, and a track record of shipping production-quality services at companies like Capital One, Flexport, and Enova. Aidan has a strong testing and backend focus—evidenced by contributions to rspec-sidekiq where he improved Sidekiq test hooks and modernized compatibility—highlighting attention to reliability in retry and exception scenarios. He combines enterprise-scale engineering practices with startup agility, moving between high-growth and large-institution environments. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he pairs solid academic foundations with practical experience mentoring teams and improving testability of distributed workloads. Notably, his career shows a pattern of elevating backend robustness and observability across domains.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Michigan
Github Skills (4)
ruby10
sidekiq10
rspec10
testing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wspurgin/rspec-sidekiq
Aug 2016 - Jun 2020
RSpec for Sidekiq
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 1 review, 29 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `rspec-sidekiq` project, focusing on enhancing the testing capabilities of Sidekiq integration. Their work included modifying the `within_sidekiq_retries_exhausted_block` method to pass exceptions and refactoring the test suite to ensure proper message and exception handling within retry scenarios. Further contributions involved updating the codebase to use `Numeric` instead of `Fixnum` for compatibility and incrementing the project version.
minitestrailsrubyrspecsidekiq
packrat386/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Jul 2024
Contributions:6 releases, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 1 month
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