# Aaron Shiel

> Software Engineer II at USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aaronshiel

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Jan 2021 – Present
Leading the development of diverse MERN-stack projects.

Establishing project foundations to ensure smooth and seamless CI/CD operations for developers of various skill levels. A few strategies includes comprehensive unit and end-to-end test suites, automatic code deployment through AWS Codepipeline, and more. 

Implementing cutting-edge AI solutions to address modern challenges, mastering effective prompting with leading LLM services.

Reducing costs by leveraging serverless frameworks and efficiently sharing large resources.

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Presented the PAL3 project at IITSEC 2023, networking with industry leaders and forming strategic connections for future project collaborations.

Optimized legacy React code with modern rendering techniques, improving loading speeds by up to 2.5x.

Refactored Mongoose/MongoDB operations to utilize bulk write/read processes, reducing load times by up to 3x.

### NSF Research Intern @ USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
During my time at USC ICT, I made contributions to the Advancing Teachers Understanding of Proportional Reasoning project. This is a web based and utilizes a virtual human assistant to help guide teachers through various assessments.

Tech used: React.js, HTML/CSS, Contentful, AWS Transcription Service

• Promoted user engagement and success during assessments by implementing and improving web based educational tools, such as a notepad, whiteboard, and dictionary.
• Implemented new user-assessment types by building assessment templates on a CMS and developing the corresponding page in React.
• Enabled Speech-to-Text capabilities by utilizing Amazons Transcribe Services, increasing the accessibility of our website.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
California State University-Sacramento

### Computer Science
Sacramento City College

### General Education
De Anza College


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-10