Sloan Ahrens
Staff Developer at Trabian
Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolSloan Ahrens is a seasoned full-stack engineer and staff developer with 13 years of experience building SaaS, ML infrastructure, e-discovery, e-commerce, social media, and retail analytics systems. He combines a strong foundation in physics, mathematics, and data science with hands-on expertise in front-end, back-end, data engineering, DevOps, CI/CD and security to deliver production-ready, scalable solutions. Sloan has launched and led engineering efforts as a co-founder/CTO and later as a senior engineer and architect, repeatedly translating ambiguous requirements into robust, maintainable architectures. He is experienced implementing and refining LLM models and routinely leverages modern AI tools to accelerate development and analytics workflows. Based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he is a clear communicator who explains complex technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Beyond day-to-day engineering, he runs custom software projects through Ahrens Software and now shapes platform work at Trabian, blending entrepreneurial grit with deep technical breadth.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Zero To Mastery AcademyBachelor of Science Physics minor Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Physics minor Computer Science at University of Arkansas
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Github Skills (34)
elasticsearch10
lucene9
autocomplete9
aggregations9
git-repo8
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search-engine6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sloanahrens/qbox-blog-code
Sep 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:52 commits, 9 pushes in 8 months
sloanahrens/devops-toolkit-test
Jul 2019 - Mar 2023
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Contributions:23 PRs, 125 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 8 months
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