Aurora Vaughn
Software Engineer at USG
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAurora Vaughn is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with eight years of experience building scalable web platforms and optimizing backend performance across diverse stacks, currently focused on TypeScript. She has led complex migrations and high-traffic optimizations—improving query performance on 40M+ row tables and designing bulk upload systems—while shaping CI/CD, security, and developer workflows. Aurora prioritizes people and ethical product impact, mentors teams through turnover, and champions thoughtful upfront questions over hurried fixes. Comfortable across frontend and backend (Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, AWS), she’s driving specialization while deliberately avoiding Web3 roles. Based in Chicago, she blends technical rigor with a service mindset born from earlier customer-facing roles and teaching experience.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Fullstack Development, Fullstack Development at Fullstack AcademyBachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General at Murray State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at City Colleges of Chicago-Harold Washington College
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Github Skills (3)
react3
nextjs2
gatsby2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AuroraVaughn/vaughn.fun
Jun 2018 - Feb 2023
Static personal website
Contributions:13 PRs, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
gatsbyreactnextjs
Team-PiRoutes/byHeart
Mar 2018 - Apr 2021
ByHeart is a tool to help people memorize monologues, text passages, and other material. By removing letters from the words incrementally, reading the material becomes more difficult.
Contributions:36 PRs, 38 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 1 month
wordshelp-peoplepassages
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