# Aaron Gunderson > Senior Software Engineer at Tern Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/aarongunderson Seeking a senior engineer or tech lead role building software solving complex problems. As a systems focused builder, I thrive in collaborative environments that provide autonomy to ship solutions from concept to production. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Tern Jan 2022 – Present Product focused engineer who built from zero to one on a small team. Leading from the front building and mentoring a small team. Focused on solving business needs while maintaining quality and velocity on hard problems. Played a key role shipping and leading development of software across the stack: - Led development of a returns business intelligence product, which analyzed over >$1.5B in transactions. Delivered insights and visualizations on complicated - Built real-time business event processing and decision-making systems powering return policy decisions for select Shopify merchants - Streamline reverse logistics workflows with tooling for data extraction and annotation including OCR, PDF's, web scraping etc - Built and scaled reverse logistics tooling to support multi-region operations - Worked on a multi-disciplinary team to implement consumer-facing web and mobile app experiences enabling smoother returns and exchanges ### Senior Software Engineer @ Skylla Technologies Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 I earned the "full" in full-stack title here. As a leader engineer on a small robotics team I wore many hats enabling robots to navigate safely in complex environments. - Built software to manage, visualize and control in various commercial and manufacturing environments. - Built integrated experiences combining hardware and software into user friendly systems - Developed data streaming and capture tools for repeatability and accuracy analysis - Tap to move robot programming for integrating robots into existing workflows - Developed software and processes for installing, managing and updating robots in the field ### Software Engineer @ Skylla Technologies Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 Software Engineer responsible for full stack administration and operations tooling for supporting a robotics platform. Real time robotics UI controls, Elixir, React, Postgres, API integration, distributed systems problems and more. ### Software Engineer @ BookBub Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area From managing the complexity of data on millions of books to business tooling I tackled some hard problems on a great team. Some notable projects I tackled: - Speeding up daily imports and incremental book metadata updates - Overhauled tooling responsible for managing, deduping, merging, and standardizing book data - Rebuilding partner tooling to create and manage ad marketing campaigns - Improving consumer search through improved indexing and ranking ### Inventor @ The Inventor's Guild Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 Founded in September of 2012, the Inventor’s Guild is a think tank and consulting firm which promotes entrepreneurial innovation by helping students earn both course credit and payment to either start their own companies or consult for early-stage start-ups. Since inception, the Guild has won over three dozen awards both nationally and internationally, performed consultation and contracting services for nearly a dozen start-ups, and formed professional relationships with many renowned innovators including Pebble Technologies and GoogleX. The Guild currently consists of students from RPI, Harvard, Texas A&M, Georgia Tech, and the University of Pennsylvania. ### Coordinator @ Rensselaer Center for Open Source Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Outside of working on my project through RCOS I also work with the faculty advisors and fellow Lead Mentors to organize and run RCOS. Most of my work involves planning presentations, leading meetings, outreach events and help monitor progress of students involved with our center. I work closely with mentors and developers to help facilitate personal growth and project success. ### Software Developer @ Rensselaer Center for Open Source Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Developer for RCOS, a group of RPI students who work on open source projects. Currently working on overhauling Observatory our home built open source project tracking system. Previously worked on a Django Web app to track grades and prioritize homework. ### Software Engineer Intern @ BookBub Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ### Operations Intern @ Onshape Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA Worked on deployment and build automation, monitoring and alerting, and other miscellaneous operations projects. Wrote code for and worked with a large variety of technologies including Ansible, Puppet, Python, MongoDB, Java, and Angular. ### Undergraduate Programming Mentor @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Work under a Graduate Teaching Assitant helping students in Computer Science 1 complete lab assignments and grading them on the material. Also assist with debugging students code and teaching the basics of programming with Python. ### Teaching Resident Assistant @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Actively engage K-12 students in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math disciplines and help excite them about possible careers in the STEM fields. Help prepare and guide students for college and beyond. ### Work Study Assistant for the Office of the Bursar @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Helped with administrative tasks including managing student accounts and student records. Used Banner Student Information system. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/agundy - Website: http://agundy.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/aarongunderson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/aarongunderson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22