Erik Aronesty
Senior Software Engineer at Puzzle 🧩🚀
Oak Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolErik Aronesty is a Senior Software Engineer and technology founder with over 25 years of experience building systems across bioinformatics, finance, cybersecurity, and high-scale internet services. He combines deep systems and language-level expertise (C/C++, Perl, Python, TCP/IP, databases) with applied machine learning—having built LSTM/NLP tooling at Bloomberg and an AI pipeline and fan-out framework more recently. As CTO he designed multilayered endpoint ECC encryption and a React/Express security dashboard, and earlier founded and exited major internet businesses including a top DNS provider and ecommerce platform. He also authored widely used sequencing tooling and ran peta-scale genomics compute at Quintiles, showing rare fluency in both HPC genomics and low-latency trading systems. An active contributor to projects like pytest (test automation/enhancements), Erik blends entrepreneurial product instincts with hands-on engineering and a track record of shipping production-grade, cross-platform solutions. Based in Oak Park, CA, he often bridges research-grade algorithms and practical, scalable engineering.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityB.A. Computer Science Psychology, B.A. Computer Science Psychology at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (21)
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Github contributions (5)
pytest-dev/pytest
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Erik's commits primarily focus on enhancing the pytest framework's testing capabilities. They address issues related to fixture lookup and exception handling within test configurations. The user demonstrates expertise in modifying and updating existing test files to ensure comprehensive testing coverage. Contributions also extend to updating the pytest codebase itself to improve functionality.
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earonesty/grun
May 2011 - Feb 2018
Contributions:117 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 years 10 months
management-systemjob-managementjobclustergrid
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