Melissa Aaron
Senior Software Engineer at The RealPocket
United States
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Top SchoolMelissa Aaron is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable back-end systems and test automation, currently advancing platform work at Chromatic. She combines hands-on contributions to distributed database projects—such as improving query validation and test coverage in Expensify's Bedrock—with entrepreneurial product instincts as founder of The RealPocket, a practical apparel hardware startup. Melissa holds a Master's in Computer Science from Drexel and brings a pragmatic focus on correctness, resilience, and developer experience across production systems. Colleagues describe her as detail-oriented and tenacious, able to translate tricky edge-case requirements into robust automated tests and clear engineering solutions.
10 years of coding experience
Koç ÜniversitesiMasters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Drexel University
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Github Skills (5)
sql-query10
sqlite10
sql10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Expensify/Bedrock
Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
Rock solid distributed database specializing in active/active automatic failover and WAN replication
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:122 commits, 31 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Melissa primarily focused on improving the database's query handling and testing infrastructure. They implemented stricter query validation, enforcing the use of semicolons and `WHERE` clauses in specific query types. Their work also involved adding new tests to ensure the database's correctness, including tests for insert, delete, and update operations, as well as tests for the "nowhere" functionality. Further, the user has fixed a few bugs in the test suite.
rockdistributed-databasedatabasefailoverreplication
mea36/Shell-Config
Sep 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 10 branches in 9 years 1 month
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