Aidan

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My name is Aidan (eye-den) - Gaelic name with a German pronunciation. Thanks, mom! I am: married to an amazing woman; a father of 3 boys; a serial founding engineer; an avid dreamer and tinkerer.

Challenging problems excite me, and with over a decade of experience in Software Engineering Leadership, I’ve tackled them from many angles: rapid prototyping, architecting and delivering go-to-market products, building high quality engineering teams, and managing engineering operations and security. I'm both highly creative and highly analytical. It makes me a natural problem solver - asking the right questions, discovering the core problems, dreaming up innovative solutions, analyzing them to find the best one, and deploying products on time and on budget. When surrounded by other intelligent and ambitious people, I come alive and turn good ideas into great products and experiences.

My most valuable skill is my ability to lead and coordinate teams of highly intelligent people to solve difficult problems and produce great work. I accomplish this with excellent technical documentation which concisely describes what needs to happen, why it needs to happen, and when it needs to happen.

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Aidan thinks differently. He finds inefficiency intolerable, and rather than complaining about the issues, he works to create solutions for everyone.

Ian McDowell (Former Boss, VP at Sundt Construction)

Aidan is one of the most creative, industrious, and dependable people I have ever had the pleasure of working with. He is a gifted technical communicator and has established core processes in our team, ensuring that we can operate at maximum capacity with minimal overhead.

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Josh Winters (Colleague at IdealSpot)
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He's smart and he enjoys finding interesting and creative solutions to complex problems. It seems like whatever problem I throw at him, he knows precisely what to do to solve it and he works closely with his team to ensure all work is completed on time and on budget.

Paul Henderson (Former Client, Owner at CostumeManager)

Aidan is by far the best manager I have worked for because he knows how to keep the engineering team on time but still balance the human element of managing a company. He is always willing to listen and push his engineers so that they can achieve their goals.

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James Drakes (Former Employee at IdealSpot)

Principal Software Engineer | Homeward in Austin, TX

July 2019 - Present

In the conventional home buying process, you need to sell your current home so you can afford your next one. This leads to rushed decisions and unnecessary stress. Not anymore. We've designed a calmer, more convenient process. With Homeward you get the cash you need to buy before you sell so you stay in control. Homeward secured a $371M series B round in May 2021.

[Python + Django, ReactJS, Docker + Kubernetes, AWS]

Director of Engineering | IdealSpot Inc. in Austin, TX

October 2015 - July 2019

IdealSpot uses real-time market data to help businesses find the perfect locations. I led the planning, design, architecture, security, and delivery management of all levels of engineering that went into the IdealSpot platform. The IdealSpot platform has continued running effectively without engineering input for nearly 4 years.

[Python, Elixir, Node.js, Vue.js, Docker + Kubernetes, Google Cloud]

Software Engineer | Malauzai Inc. in Austin, TX

March 2014 - October 2015

As a team of only 3 engineers, we developed a full, white-labeled internet banking web app from the ground up in less than a year. It interfaced with a central Web Services Platform that also services iOS and Android applications. The platform was acquired by Finastra in 2018.

[Node.js, React.js, LESS, Ruby on Rails]

Co-founder, Project Manager | VGC Unlimited, LLC in Costa Mesa, CA

December 2011 - March 2014

My two partners and I created an outsourced software development business with a network of over 100 vendors. We delivered over 30 high-quality web-apps and websites and built our own SaaS solution for vendor management using PHP.

[PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Shopify]

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