Aiden Scandella
Senior Staff Engineer at SoFi
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAiden Scandella is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems, developer tooling, and scalable cloud infrastructure across startups and large platforms. He’s led engineering teams and built first products from scratch at Supernow, drove Go adoption and core service frameworks at Uber, and recently scaled platform and SaaS infrastructure at Metabase and Rover. Comfortable both shipping solo and operating as a technical leader, he combines hands-on refactoring, test automation, and CI/tooling improvements with architectural work like multi-account AWS redesigns. An active contributor to Go ecosystem tooling—having improved golang/dep with bug fixes and test coverage—he shows attention to code quality and developer experience. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that reduce operational friction and accelerate delivery while maintaining strong engineering standards.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Washington
Italian, Japanese
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Github Skills (6)
dependency-management10
go10
package-management10
testing10
golang9
toolchain8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
golang/dep
May 2017 - May 2017
Go dependency management tool experiment (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits, 10 PRs, 69 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Aiden primarily worked on refactoring and improving the `golang/dep` dependency management tool. Their contributions focused on fixing bugs related to directory parsing and handling of dot-prefixed files, including the creation of new test cases to validate these fixes. Additionally, the user addressed gofmt lint errors, indicating a focus on code quality and adherence to coding standards within the project. Their work also involved adding and modifying tests.
dependency-managementgogolangdependency-managerpackage-manager
1WillKelly/kellybowlpickem
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
kellybowlpickem.com
Contributions:1 review, 58 commits, 100 PRs in 24 days
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