# Aarin Salot

> Software Engineer @ Stripe | CS @ UC Berkeley

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aarin

Email: aarin.salot@berkeley.edu 
Personal Website: https://aarinsalot.github.io/
Github: https://github.com/AarinSalot

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2025 – Present

### TA, Operating Systems and Systems Programming @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Taught CS 162: Operating Systems and Systems Programming: https://cs162.org/

### Tutor, Computer Architecture @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Taught C, memory management, multi-threading, RISC-V assembly, datapaths, and caches to 700+ students

### Tutor, Data Structures and Algorithms @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Taught 100+ students Data Structures and Algorithms in Java through leading discussion and Office Hour sessions
• Proctored exams, graded homework, debugged student code, and performed quality checks on course materials

### Software Engineer Intern @ Stripe
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Built v2 APIs for Connect KYC data acquisition with Ruby and MongoDB, supporting 2^65 configurations and replacing legacy APIs with 1000+ QPS and XXM total users
• Developed event-driven system to maintain consistency across MongoDB databases (3.6 & 4.4) while minimizing API latency impact
• Architected v1/v2 interop system, ensuring backward compatibility for v1 systems, error detection, and recovery

### Software Engineer Intern @ AeroVironment
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Simi Valley, California, United States
• Automated analysis of 8000+ controller tests by categorizing failures and generating HTML/CSS web logs
• Created 22 drone quality control tests using C#, Python, Atlassian Confluence REST API, and Regex parsing
• Accelerated firmware updates 24x via bootloader GUI FSM and microcontroller pairing enhancements

### Senior Advisor @ Computer Science Mentors
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Advise Junior Mentors on teaching skills through direct feedback, structured workshops, and section shadowing
• Lead weekly lectures for Data Structures and Algorithms course at UC Berkeley
• Incorporate additional academic support by hosting midterm review sessions and assisting in project debugging

### Junior Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Led weekly lectures for Data Structures and Algorithms course at UC Berkeley
• Incorporated additional academic support by hosting midterm review sessions and assisting in project debugging

### Software Consultant @ Clarity
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
• Worked on a consulting project for a French neuroscience startup along with 4 other members in Neurotech@Berkeley
• Built frontend for Alzheimer's research platform using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and React to display clinical metrics
• Linked dynamic pages with React Router for password protection, trial selection, settings, and stimulation recording

### Software Engineer @ Neurotech@Berkeley
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Created visual communication platform using EEG signals and GPT chatbot that enables users to generate responses using eye movements, improving the accessibility of communication for individuals with disabilities
• Utilized Python/PyGame frontend to determine the location of a user’s gaze by flickering visual stimuli at various frequencies and analyzing the steady state visually evoked potentials emitted from the user’s brain    
• Improved user accuracy by 10% by refactoring the frontend using PyQt5, eliciting odd-ball paradigm through displaying different colored response options, and examining P300 decision making signals
• Applied GPT to convert input sentence into closely related words, then filtered out repeats to generate options

### Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Assisted in teaching UC Berkeley’s Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs course
• Taught and clarified topics including recursion, object oriented programming, containers, Scheme, SQL, RegEx, higher-order functions, generators, data abstraction and language abstraction using interpreters
• Answered students’ questions and provided academic support


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### High School Diploma in International Baccalaureate Diploma Program
Royal High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aarinsalot
- Portfolio: https://aarinsalot.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-31