Emad Aghaei
Principal Software Engineer at Walgreens
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmad Aghaei is a Principal Software Engineer based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area with over a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale web, mobile, and multi-threaded systems. He combines hands-on expertise in microservices, developer tooling, and financial/healthcare platforms with leadership experience running cross-functional teams and mentoring researchers. A Ph.D. in Computer Science from George Mason University underpins his work inventing developer-facing tools—he led research and built a web-based microtasking IDE and has contributed to IntelliJ IDEA plugins to improve code understanding. At companies from JetBrains and Thoughtworks to Walgreens, he has moved between individual contributor and lead roles, shipping production systems that serve millions of users. Known as a developer-toolmaker, he blends human-centered design with rigorous engineering to make developers more productive.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Information Technology, Master’s Degree Information Technology at University of TehranBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Shiraz University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at George Mason University
English, Persian
Github Skills (10)
intellij-idea9
intellij-platform8
intellij-plugin8
intellij8
react4
expressjs4
firebase-cloud-functions3
google-cloud2
firebase2
firestore1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EmadAghaei/homepage
Aug 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 102 commits, 105 pushes in 4 years 4 months
devuxd/online-shopping-microservice
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 1 year 7 months
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