# Aaron Suarez

> Design, Engineering, Community

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aaronsuarez

## Work Experience
### Store Associate @ Dogpatch Games
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA

### Design Engineer @ Gather
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Gather
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Discord
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Discord
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Owner @ Aaron Suarez, LLC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Met with various clients to discuss needs and potential web-based solutions to their problems
- Designed wireframes, mockups, and UI components to be leveraged in design systems and planning
- Implemented websites and web applications using languages and frameworks such as CSS, Sass, React, Redux, styled-components, and Gatsby
- Created CI/CD pipelines with CircleCI, Terraform, and Docker to deploy projects using AWS technologies such as S3, Cloudfront, EC2, Route53, RDS, etc.

### Founding Frontend Engineer & Designer @ ULodging
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Senior Associate Software Developer @ Capital One
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
02/2017 - 03/2018: As a developer in Card Technology, I developed and supported Capital One's Credit Card Application Fraud Microservice. With a potential to save over $400 million in fraud loses, this service was built using a custom microservice framework built using Scala and Akka. I implemented monitoring dashboards using Logstash and Filebeat, and integrated PagerDuty alerts for on-call personnel. 

03/2018-03/2019: As a developer in Shared Tech, I worked on Capital One's main website. I supported and optimized Capital One's Support Center portal using Angular, implemented redirects to decommission expired pages using Akamai, and assisted in the development of a static website generator platform to ease deployment of web pages.

### Web Development Intern @ Internet Business Japan
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

### Technology Development Intern @ Capital One
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Product Development Intern @ Vecna
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA
Product design and development from brainstorming to prototype, web design and development from paper prototype to MVP

### UI Developer Intern @ Tremor Video
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Boston, MA

### UROP Student @ MIT Center for Mobile Learning
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge, MA
I have been a UROP student with the MIT App Inventor Team for a year now. I am currently a part of the Education Team, where I help to manage the website that complements the App Inventor service. I do a variety of things including creating site material, helping to manage the site's database of material, and developing new features for users to access news and material. Recently, I helped to redesign the website. Visit it at appinventor.mit.edu.

### Sales Associate @ Gap Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Assisted in the opening of a new store, cashiered, stocked, and managed dressing rooms. Developed visual merchandising and consumer service skills.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aaosuarez
- Website: https://www.behance.net/aosuarez

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Last updated: 2026-03-22