Aidan Eglin
Software Engineering Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Eglin is a software engineering manager at AWS with a decade of experience building and leading teams around cloud-native orchestration, currently shaping AWS Step Functions. A former founder whose startup was acquired, he brings entrepreneurial product sensibility paired with deep hands-on expertise in Ruby, Elixir, and TypeScript. He’s shipped both backend services and polished front-end experiences—contributing UI improvements and metadata-driven upload flows to the popular self-hosted audiobookshelf project. Based in Vancouver and a high-achieving UBC computer science graduate, Aidan blends pragmatic engineering with a focus on developer UX and operational reliability.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 97.5%, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 97.5% at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (12)
audio10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
vue10
vue-jsx10
bookshelfjs10
html9
css9
api8
apim8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
advplyr/audiobookshelf
Nov 2023 - Sep 2024
Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 1 PR, 12 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily focused on improving the user interface and adding new features to the audiobook server's upload functionality. They implemented the ability to fetch book metadata from various providers during the upload process. The user also made UI enhancements, including tooltips, and addressed layout issues within the upload component. These changes directly contribute to a better user experience.
audiobookspodcasthostedself-hostingaudiobookshelf
kieraneglin/fluidd
Jun 2021 - Feb 2023
Fluidd, the klipper UI.
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 8 months
reactfluiddklipper
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