Aaron
Sutton

Short intro

I’m a software engineer from Pittsburgh. Most always, a coffee will motivate me to write some code.

TypeScript
Vue
React
Elixir
Haskell
Ruby

Projects and experience

Current VP of Engineering at Apex Health, a University of Pittsburgh startup.
Implemented custom frontend forms for a law firm in New Jersey — demo pages available for buyer and seller forms.
Wrote a proxy client and server in Rails for the popular Shadowsocks library.

Programming languages and tools

The long list, for the truly curious...

Web development

MVC pattern and traditional server-side rendered backends, using Phoenix Framework and Ruby on Rails.
Currently building hybrid-rendered web apps on a cutting-edge framework: Nuxt 3.
Design and build frontends in React, Vue and Svelte.

Scripting and data processing

Scripting with Ruby, Zsh and Bash.
Basic data processing experience with Python.

In the cloud

In-depth knowledge of the Google Cloud Platform, notably building backends using cloud functions.
Experience with small applications hosted on AWS.

Mobile applications

iOS programming using Swift.
Frontend design using the SwiftUI framework.
Intermediate experience with Java.

Databases

Postgres and SQLite through work on web applications.
Google Firebase and Cloud Firestore.

Editors and Design software

Vim
Figma
Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Other neat stuff I can do

Design and program stage lights using Obsidian, ETC, and Zero88 consoles.
Mix audio in recording and live settings.
Scripting and administration of Unix-like systems, via some command line-fu.