# Aaron Baker > Senior Software Engineer - Cloud @ Kaplan Location: Queens, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/aaronbaker Hello there! I'm Aaron, a full-stack web developer with over 10 years of experience. I'm currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Kaplan. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Kaplan Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Nuvocargo Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | NYC • Led and developed a tool for pricing customs, including writing technical documentation, increasing bandwidth for the customs team. • Led a cross-functional customs team, building an MVP to give better visibility to the status of shipments crossing the border. • Researched and implemented a feature flagging system, allowing safer and more rapid deploys. • Wrote a significant number of tests for a legacy application to achieve near 100% coverage. • Created reusable view components in Ruby on Rails with interactive parts using Stimulus. ### Senior Software Engineer @ True Link Financial Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | NYC • Planned and led additional card ordering rewrite in Rails and React, streamlining and simplifying the process of onboarding more users. • Led the charge on implementing JSON API standards for a critical service, standardizing the way users interact with the API. • Planned and implemented a company rebrand and refactored our front-end code, allowing easier modification for future brand changes. • Updated customer-facing pages to meet accessibility standards, resulting in higher usability for many customers. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Dia&Co Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | NYC • Built administrative tools in Ruby on Rails and React for internal merchandise buyers to manage clothing product inventory. • Created efficient workflows for warehouse operations employees to pick and pack boxes to ship to customers. • Integrated with a large 3rd party e-commerce platform to expand customer reach. • Championed the React infrastructure in the admin code base, mentoring the team to increase output. • Completely re-wrote the CSV processing architecture to improve merchandise workflows. ### Software Engineer @ Kaplan Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | SF • Created a new learning management application for DBC students with a front-end engineer, allowing users to better manage their workload. • Re-wrote a critical application to hand over to a sister company as the company spun down. • Collaborated closely with a small team to attempt to validate problems in the technical hiring space. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Sharethrough Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area • Created data-oriented workflows in Ruby on Rails and Angular.js for publishers to manage their websites' native advertising portfolio. • Created cross-team engineering syncs to share knowledge across the organization, increasing visibility into the engineering org as a whole. • Fully created the front-end Angular.js implementation of the publisher application. ### Software Developer @ Neo Innovation, Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Columbus, Ohio • Created many Ruby on Rails-based MVPs for various clients including Schlage, ICANN, PLOS, and the Ministry of Manpower in Singapore. • Paired with fellow engineers and collaborated with clients through daily standups and regular retrospectives to ensure the project's health. • Utilized code quality tools such as RuboCop and Code Climate to maintain healthy code bases. ### Web Development Apprentice @ Neo Innovation, Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Columbus, Ohio Worked closely with expert developers on production code. Worked on a personal project to apply learnings and explore other coding interests. Created an event stream of happenings from Pivotal, Github, and others using ActionController::Live. ## Education ### Computer Science Engineering The Ohio State University Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/scssquatch --- Source: https://flows.cv/aaronbaker JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/aaronbaker/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23