Aidan Musnitzky
Verified Expert in Engineering
Game Development Developer
San Francisco, CA, United States
Toptal member since July 18, 2015
Aidan is a full-stack software engineer with a strong theoretical computer science and mathematics background. He has built mobile/web applications and web services at scale, worked on large-scale projects, and designed and developed various games and products. He has worked on large teams and led small teams, including leading a new internal product team at Amazon Web Services.
Portfolio
Experience
- Game Development - 20 years
- JavaScript - 11 years
- Web App Development - 5 years
- React - 4 years
- Apps - 4 years
- Blockchain - 2 years
- Ethereum - 2 years
- Solidity - 2 years
Work Experience
Freelance Software Engineer
Self-employed
- Work part-time while travelling.
- Develop using JavaScript for a client who wants a website builder application.
- Build a shopping cart plugin for a startup and integrated it with their current system in JavaScript.
- Work on an interactive, animated children’s book mobile app with an artist, which we plan to release in the next few months. (JavaScript/PhoneGap).
- Complete a social/events web and mobile app for a non-profit organization. (JavaScript/Parse).
Software Development Engineer
Amazon Web Services
- Built tools to orchestrate and visualize Amazon’s fleet of servers and data centers in real time, gathering and exposing massive amounts of data.
- Responsible for bug fixing, refactoring/rewriting code, new feature dev, new web service dev, tooling and automation, devops, operations, database management, and supporting customers to solve their issues and elicit feedback, requirements, and new directions to take our team in.
- Built a firewall deployment automation tool that spread and became used by most teams in EC2 and pushed hard to find the root cause of a service issue that led to discovering new customer usage patterns and feature requirements that fed back into the team’s roadmap.
- Gained extensive experience here in Ruby, Rails, general web service/API development, building scalable web services, operating and supporting web services at scale with hundreds of servers and database configurations, and focusing on creating a great experience for our customers.
- Started a new team/project - a web app for project management and roadmap planning that would be used by all teams and management in EC2.
- Technical lead on this project, responsible for all technical design/technology/architecture, for working with our potential users to come up with and implement a design for the app that would solve their problems, for the team’s software engineering methodologies, and for much of the user interface and user experience of the app.
- Grew and trained the team up to four people and developed an app that all management in Cape Town got on board with. Many roadmap-related problems that they had been having were solved by the app, and their planning processes became much more efficient and effective.
- Worked with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Ember.js and HTML/CSS on this project.
Software Engineer Intern
Joburg Center for Software Engineering
- Worked as an intern on an open source content management system in Chisimba.
- The team was very big and so bred strong collaboration and communication skills.
- Developed part of a video lecture application extension for the framework in Java.
- Wrote some CSS custom themes.
- Extended the framework in PHP.
Project History
Internal Orchestration System
Project and Roadmap Management Tool
iheartjew
Education
Honour's Degree in Computer Science
University of Cape Town - Cape Town, South Africa
Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Witwatersrand - Johannesburg, South Africa
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, POCO, jQuery, TensorFlow, Node.js
Tools
Ethereum Plasma, CppCMS, Sublime Text, GitHub, Shell
Languages
JavaScript, Solidity, CSS, HTML, Java, SQL, Python, Ruby, PHP, Objective-C, Scala, C++
Frameworks
Famo.us, Ember.js, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Mach-II, PhoneGap, AngularJS
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Blockchain Platforms, Blockchain, Ethereum, Windows, Ubuntu, MacOS, Linux, Parse, Meteor, Firebase
Paradigms
UX Design, Model View Controller (MVC), UI Design, Test-driven Development (TDD)
Storage
MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Other
Customized Blockchains, Ethereum Open Source, Ethereum Smart Contracts, Apps, Games, 3D Games, 2D Games, Bitcoin, Game Development, Game Design, Web App Development, Software Development, Front-end Development, Cordova, Game Theory, Scalability, Web Services, Mathematics, Shell Scripting, Economics, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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