Aria Davis is a security-focused senior software engineer based in the Denver area with seven years of experience building and hardening backend systems. She combines hands-on development—contributing protections and tests to high-profile projects like rubygems.org—with proven leadership as a team lead who mentors junior engineers and runs knowledge-transfer sessions. At Kin Insurance she drives cross-team coordination, incident support, and infrastructure work on AWS/Terraform while keeping teams productive with developer tooling and CI improvements. Her background as a cybersecurity instructor and rapid CVE remediation record reflect a practical threat-modeling mindset that informs safer design and deployment. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic problem solving that balances shipping results with maintainable, secure code.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Backend Engineering, Backend Engineering at Turing School of Software & Design
Contributions summary:Aria focused on improving the rubygems.org backend, specifically by implementing features related to typo-squatting protection. They added checks to prevent the creation of gems with names similar to existing protected gems, added tests to validate this feature and refactored existing tests to improve code quality. Additionally, they modified the schema to include an index and updated API tests to include the newly introduced validations.
BE Mod 2 Week 4/5 Group Project, an e-commerce platform
Contributions:94 commits in 9 days
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