Aidan Feldman is a multidisciplinary technologist and creative entrepreneur based in New York with 15 years of experience blending software engineering, data automation, and design. Currently a Finance Intern and Creative Director at NYU UDAS while running his own media company, he pairs technical rigor with visual storytelling to deliver polished products and content. His open-source footprint spans well-known projects like Jekyll, pandas, and choosealicense.com, where he has improved testing infrastructure, front-end accessibility, and data pipeline automation. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, QA, and DevOps, he has implemented CI/CD, refactored test suites, and built data extraction workflows that convert APIs into production-ready CSVs. A civic technologist by day and dancer by night, he brings a rare mix of analytical discipline and creative perspective to cross-functional teams.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Public Policy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Public Policy at New York University
Bishop O'Dowd High School
N/A Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, N/A Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Boston University
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Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:73 commits, 21 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily focused on refactoring testing infrastructure within the repository. This involved migrating from the `test-unit` testing framework to `minitest`, removing the dependency on `shoulda`, and updating test definitions. The user also modified and expanded the test suite by adding new assertions and testing methodologies. Overall, the user contributed significantly to the improvement and maintainability of the project's testing capabilities.
Contributions:64 commits, 26 PRs, 26 pushes in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the emoji cheat sheet. Their contributions included converting the site to a Jekyll-based structure, removing unnecessary elements, and upgrading dependencies like ZeroClipboard. They also added features such as SVG support, search functionality by name, and improved the overall presentation by styling code samples and incorporating a GitHub ribbon for project visibility.
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