Aaron Jones

At Calm, I architected and led the transition from a Node.js monolith deployed on bare EC2 instances to containerized Go services running in Kubernetes. I developed the CI/CD workflow as well as many of the base libraries that were critical to the success of the transition.

At Calm, the company's growth facilitated the need to become GDPR compliant.

I designed and led the implementation spanning all areas of our storage and infrastructure to meet the given requirements. I partnered with the legal team to create a "data map" that provided clear guidance on the updates that must be carried out.

Radiant is an innovative hyper-local experience platform that merges advanced GPS and iBeacon technology to precisely locate users and offer targeted promotions and opportunities. I spearheaded a significant partnership with the largest casino operator on the Las Vegas Strip, leading to the installation of hundreds of iBeacons across their venues.

I handled the full-scale development of the platform, including crafting the Objective-C library and plugin, designing a comprehensive website for content management and real-time user heatmap visualization, and implementing a robust Node.js back end. To ensure high-speed data processing, I collaborated with Bay Area-based MemSQL to integrate a cutting-edge, fully in-memory SQL database into our infrastructure.

The Ad Yield Maximization Platform is a cutting-edge Go-based service designed to optimize advertising revenue by intelligently sourcing and selecting ad creatives from multiple providers. It uses linear regression to blend the intrinsic value of ad creatives with their likelihood of conversion, ensuring that the most valuable creative is presented to each user. This service is the cornerstone of our company's revenue generation, continuously proving its worth as our primary income source through its sophisticated approach to maximizing ad performance.

In-App Purchase Promotions is a comprehensive full-stack product that empowers customers to craft compelling creatives for mobile applications specifically designed to drive in-app purchases. Seamlessly integrated with our robust Ad Yield Maximization Platform, this solution ensures that app developers maximize their revenue potential when displaying ads. The technical architecture of this platform includes a React front end, a Go-based API layer, and a Cassandra database, all efficiently orchestrated on a Kubernetes environment. This product stands out by combining creative design flexibility with high-performance technology to optimize financial outcomes for developers.

A Unity engine, C# mobile game.

As a front-end architect and project lead, I handled all of the visual elements and components that were assembled into custom games through simple configurations. My role involved building two parallel teams to utilize these components, facilitating rapid development and iteration.

A C# mobile game developed in Unity Game Engine.

I was a founder of the company and the primary developer for this game. It was featured by Google multiple times and was downloaded over 1 million times. This game contained many complex implementations around time manipulation, object destruction, and animations.

An HTML5 game connected to a PHP back end.

I worked as a full-stack developer on this game for Zynga. The game was the first attempt for Zynga to utilize HTML5 for cross-platform gaming. The frameworks that were created were later used to accelerate the development of multiple successful games.