Aidan Grimshaw
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAidan Grimshaw is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, user-focused web applications and platform services, currently contributing at Meta after roles at Amazon and Capital One. He has a strong full‑stack background—shipping front-end React features for a tax-filing app and maintaining high‑traffic platform APIs and developer tooling that supported thousands of internal users. Aidan’s work blends product sensibility with engineering rigor, from refactoring A/B testing to enable hundreds of experiments to scripting analytics that saved operational costs. He brings practical security and CI experience from internships and a research background in computer vision with high-accuracy classifiers. Based in San Francisco, he balances technical depth with a hands-on, outdoorsy mindset—an amateur skateboarder and skier who codes with equal enthusiasm.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Oregon State University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
html10
javascript10
web-development10
web-application10
webapp10
react10
material-ui9
react-hook-form9
css9
gatsbyjs6
angular6
gatsby6
angular-cli6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ustaxes/UsTaxes
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Tax filing web application
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 298 reviews, 113 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Aidan primarily contributed to the front-end development of the tax filing web application, indicated by the implementation of React components and UI updates. The user added a W2 employer information form and refined the overall structure of the application by integrating components and managing routing. They also fixed bugs, incorporated reusable form components, and enhanced the user interface for improved usability.
reactpythonweb-applicationtypescripttax
thegrims/video_research
Feb 2018 - Jan 2021
bash scripts developed to record from multiple webcams simultaneously on linux
Contributions:35 commits, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 11 months
bashlinux
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