Summary
Numan Aral is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of full-stack experience, currently shaping UI/UX and agent-driven features on Pinterest’s data team from Old Toronto. He blends modern front-end practices (React, Next.js, Tailwind, HeroUI) with backend and infra skills (Node/Python, Docker, Supabase/Postgres/MySQL) to deliver production-grade, user-focused experiences. His career includes progressive roles at Pinterest and Capgemini, plus hands-on leadership upgrading legacy .NET systems to RESTful APIs and React frontends. Numan is an active tinkerer and open-source builder—his hand-written demo projects and project-showcase repo reveal a taste for playful, well-crafted engineering. He stays engaged with cutting-edge LLM tooling for coding and research, favoring Opus and Haiku families alongside Gemini/GPT models. Outside work he balances engineering with family life, which informs his pragmatic, collaborative approach to shipping reliable products.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Memorial International School of Tirana
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Calgary