Aras Moghaddam
Instructor Digital Fabrication & Design
Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAras Moghaddam is an instructor and product designer with 15 years of experience blending software, hands-on manufacturing, and digital fabrication. He teaches digital fabrication and design at Selkirk College while co-running a small farm business and launching ventures, bringing a practical maker's perspective to pedagogy and product work. His background spans front-end contributions to notable open-source projects like Mozilla’s Open Badges and B2G/Gaia UI, through to R&D building electronics and CNC setup. Comfortable moving between HTML/CSS/JS UI work, rapid prototyping, and collaborative iterative design, he excels at turning abstract requirements into tangible, user-focused artifacts. Notably, his career shift from web engineering to manufacturing and education gives him uncommon depth in both software and physical production workflows.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of VictoriaBachelor of Science, Computing Science, Bachelor of Science, Computing Science at Thompson Rivers University
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
css10
b210
user-interface10
backpack10
ui-design10
gecko10
html10
cordova9
jquery-mobile9
jquery9
opencv9
fullscreen9
computer-vision9
cordova-plugin6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/openbadges-backpack
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Mozilla Open Badges Backpack
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aras primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Mozilla Backpack project. Their work focused on modifying the UI, including renaming the application title, adjusting the layout of badge acceptance modals, and adding links to the badge upload page. They also made changes to the login and layout pages. This involved modifying HTML, CSS and Javascript, with an emphasis on improving the user experience and visual presentation.
open-badgesmozilla-openmozillabadgesbackpack
mozilla-b2g/gaia
Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
DEPRECATED - Gaia is a HTML5-based Phone UI for the Boot 2 Gecko Project. NOTE: For details of what branches are used for what releases, see
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Aras primarily contributed to the user interface of the Gallery and Video applications within the Boot to Gecko (B2G) project. The contributions involved adding, modifying, and removing UI elements such as buttons and menus. The user also addressed bugs related to empty gallery states and improved the robustness of the file saving feature in the Gallery and Music apps.
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