Hayden Demerson
Senior Software Engineer at Aurora
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHayden Demerson is a Senior Software Engineer and user-experience-focused front-end engineer with 12 years of experience designing, prototyping, and shipping polished interfaces. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends HCI research and practical engineering—leveraging a CMU Bachelor’s and Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction—to translate user insights into production web experiences. He has been driving front-end and UX work at Aurora since 2019 after building software at Uber ATG and contributing to Mozilla as a UX intern. Comfortable across the product lifecycle, Hayden pairs field research and prototyping with hands-on implementation to keep designs feasible and user-centered. Colleagues rely on him to bridge design and engineering, smoothing handoffs and accelerating delivery of intuitive, reliable interfaces. He brings an academic grounding in HCI to high-stakes applied work in autonomous vehicle and advanced‑systems environments.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems & Human-Computer Interaction, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems & Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (62)
mobx-state-tree10
redux10
firefox-webextension9
mobx9
creator9
observable9
tabs-management9
boilerplate9
webextension8
state-management8
rxjs8
firefox-addon8
mapbox-gl-js7
reactive7
mapbox-gl7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dhdemerson/azure-lightning-flask
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
lightningazure-tablestrategydeploymentsazure
dhdemerson/ember-leaflet-iiif-tile-layer
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 days
leafletember-addonember-leafletiiifwrapper-library
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