# Aaron Grider

> Senior Software Engineer at SpaceX

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aarongrider

Building pixel perfect, rock solid mobile apps.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ SpaceX
Jan 2022 – Present | Redmond, Washington, United States
- Development of the Starlink mobile application, serving over 5 million users globally.

### Software Engineer (Mobile) @ Tesla
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Bellevue, Washington, United States
- Technical leadership for the Tesla mobile app, working across teams to modernize our code base, perform React Native upgrades, improve developer ergonomics, decrease build times, and improve app launch times.
- Led the development of a variety of features to move the Tesla pre delivery experience (post order, pre delivery) from web to mobile. This included implementing complex animations, data collection, forms, payments, and transitioning to vehicle to ownership.
- Provided technical leadership as a primary contributor to internal mobile apps for coordinating scheduling, permitting, data collection and data visualization across Tesla energy products.
- Led a team to build a shared mobile design system and component library both for the primary mobile app and for apps across the company. Collaborated deeply with design and product across teams and orgs to implement a system that saved developer time, improved app performance, increased accessibility, and created brand consistency.
- Served as primary maintainer for React Native Camera Kit, one of Tesla’s most active and starred open source project. Rewrote a vast majority of the library in this time to modernize (AndroidX, functional components, etc).

### Software Engineer II (Mobile) @ Subsplash ®
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, WA
- Technical lead for Subsplash Messaging, an in-app communication platform
- React Native (Typescript) platform lead
- iOS (Objective C, Swift), Android (Java, Kotlin) & TV (tvOS, Roku) development
- CI at mega scale. Infrastructure & pipelines for build and deployment serving thousands of different app configurations

Subsplash is an innovation leader in mobile SaaS. We are blessed with a team of smart, fun, laser-focused people and we’re glad that you're here exploring opportunities with us! As a design-centric company, we are dedicated to creating software experiences that inspire and delight our clients as well as the real people that use our apps everyday.

### Software Engineer I @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Redmond, WA
- Led the design and implementation of a cross platform code-to-client install process, managing a complex network of hundreds of independent components and seamlessly deploying them to clients on Windows, Linux & Mac
- Worked on the MRAN complier toolchain, specializing with macOS.
- Contributed to our mega scale internal build automation / dependency management system (handling 100s of dependent repos, auto provisioning and scaling VM pools

Microsoft Machine Learning Tools are a collection of packages, interpreters, and infrastructure for developing and deploying machine learning and data science solutions on a range of platforms, from local standalone installations on Windows, macOS and Linux, to large distributed deployments on node clusters.

### Software Engineer I (Mobile) @ Subsplash ®
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Seattle, WA
- Android platform development
- iOS platform development
- Apple TV platform development
- Internal build tools and automation toolset

Subsplash is a design-centric software company focused on creating products that inspire and delight. Developed a cutting-edge SaaS platform that helps organizations engage users by creating incredibly powerful, flexible, and scalable custom apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Android phones and tablets, Windows Phone, Kindle, and the web.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Subsplash ®
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Seattle, Washington
-Contributed to production iOS and Android code with over 25 million users
-Assisted in reducing “tag-to-ship” time from many months to under a week
-Introduced automated mobile app testing to the company
-Enhanced CI integration and automated app store submissions for 2000+ apps


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Seattle Pacific University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Engineering
University of Michigan
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aarongrider

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Last updated: 2026-03-22