Aori Nevo
Engineering Director at American Express
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAori Nevo is an Engineering Director at American Express with over a decade of leadership experience building resilient, distributed teams and delivering customer-facing systems across enterprise and cloud platforms. A US Army veteran and PhD-trained mathematician, Aori blends rigorous analytical thinking with hands-on engineering judgment developed at Meta, AWS, Pager, and Bloomingdale’s. He is an active open-source contributor—having improved front-end accessibility and UX in the long-running WeBWorK course management project—demonstrating attention to usability as well as technical robustness. Known for coaching high-performing teams and translating complex requirements into production-ready systems, he thrives at the intersection of people leadership and deep technical craft. Based in New Jersey, he balances technical stewardship with community contribution and an unexpected personal title: CatDad.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.A. Mathematics Education, M.A. Mathematics Education at Rutgers Graduate School of EducationDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics at Stevens Institute of TechnologyB.A. Mathematics, B.A. Mathematics at Rutgers University
English, Hebrew, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
accessibility10
webwork10
css10
html9
user-interface8
graphical-user-interface8
ui-design8
underscorejs6
heroku6
visual-studio-code6
nodejs6
javascript6
jquery6
backbonejs6
sublime-text6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openwebwork/webwork2
Jun 2013 - Oct 2014
Course management front end for WeBWorK
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Aori primarily focused on front-end development within the WeBWorK2 course management system. Their contributions included changes to CSS for styling and layout adjustments, particularly within the math4 theme. They also modified HTML elements and implemented accessibility improvements, specifically updating heading tags and adjusting display options for student progress information. These changes enhance the user interface and improve the overall presentation of course data.
vuecourse-managementfront-end
aorinevo/react-gradebook
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:54 PRs, 40 pushes, 54 branches in 8 months
reactjavascriptreduxupdatingreactjs
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