Hello, I'm Aaron

I'm a backend developer with experience designing end-to-end systems and data-driven applications

UC Berkeley Computer Science 2022 • CyberPatriot National Runner-up 2018

SPOTLIGHT

Featured projects and accomplishments
Schoology Plus

Open source web extension with over 400,000 monthly users providing enhancements to the web interface of the Schoology learning management system. Written in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge

CyberPatriot National Runner-up

CyberPatriot is a national high school cybersecurity competition where teams of students secure virtual machines against an attacking red team. Placed 2nd from among over 3000 teams in the 2018 competition.

MORE PROJECTS

Here's an extended selection of my projects
Fire Alarm Monitor

Interface for browsing real time fire alarm data from North Hollywood High School. Written in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML without the use of any frameworks. Data is stored in a Microsoft SQL server and served with an ASP.NET Web API.

NHHS Botball Website

The website for the North Hollywood High School Botball robotics team. Displays team achievements and explains the competition. Written in HTML and CSS using the Materialize CSS framework.

Discord Bot

A bot providing some simple commands for the Discord chat service such as reminders, countdowns, and message leaderboards. Written in C# using Discord.NET, including a custom built command system using reflection and dependency injection.

VSCode okpy

A Visual Studio Code extension that provides interactive command support with the OK Python assignment autograder used by Berkeley's CS61A and other introductory Computer Science courses

Overwatch Tracker

A program for tracking Overwatch skill rating and game statistics. Provides an interface for viewing individual game and all time statistics with graphs and numerical data. Written in C# using WPF without any design or control frameworks.

MCCBL

Minecraft Command Block Language. Written as a means of writing Minecraft commands in a text file and importing them to the game en masse. Provides command interpretation functionality to aid in designing complex maps. Used to create the Transparency PVP map.

Even more projects on GitHub
github.com/aopell

WORK EXPERIENCE

Past and current positions and education
Atlassian

Data Engineer

2022 - present

Dataherald (YC W21)

Software Engineer

2020 – 2022

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

Summer 2021

Great Minds Robotics

Programming Instructor

2017 – 2019

UC Berkeley

B.A. Computer Science

2018 – 2022

Learn more about my positions on LinkedIn
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