Guy Aridor
Assistant Professor at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolGuy Aridor is an assistant professor and software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable data-driven systems and research-grade software. He blends academic rigor from a Columbia PhD in Economics with hands-on engineering at companies like HubSpot, Nutonian, and as a Netflix research consultant, specializing in backend architectures, analytics pipelines, and experimentation infrastructure. As a former founder who shipped product and grew early revenue, he pairs product instinct with technical depth across Python, Java, distributed systems (Kafka, Hadoop, HBase) and full-stack JavaScript. He is an active open-source contributor to JuliaCollections/DataStructures.jl, where he improved iterators, tests, and code quality—evidence of strong attention to correctness and tooling. Based in Chicago, he focuses on translating economic and machine learning research into robust, production-ready software.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Fox Chapel Area High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor's Degree, Economics, Computer Science, Pure/Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Economics, Computer Science, Pure/Applied Mathematics at Boston University
Github Skills (6)
data-structures10
data-structure10
julia10
testing10
algorithms9
iterator9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaCollections/DataStructures.jl
Jan 2016 - Nov 2016
Julia implementation of Data structures
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 20 commits, 20 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Guy primarily contributed to the data structures library by implementing and refactoring code. Their work involved removing dead code, moving imports to test files, and adding documentation. They also focused on adapting the existing test suite, including the addition of iterators for the Stack and Queue data structures, and the creation of reverse iterators. Their modifications demonstrate a strong understanding of the library's internal workings and its testing strategy.
data-structuresimplementation-of-data-structuresdatastructuresjulia
ssikdar1/ExAnteFilterBubble
Apr 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:134 commits, 9 PRs, 124 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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