# Aaron Tesfai

> Engineering @ Figma

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer, Sr @ Figma
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Upgrading whiteboarding, slides, AI and prototyping. C++ -> WASM, Typescript, React, Skew, Sinatra, Ruby.

### Software Engineer @ Atrium
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Ruby, Sorbet, Rails, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Hasura, Apollo, Typescript, React
• Redesign client billing system API with Rails and Zuora to improve turnaround from 30 days to 7 (4x)
• Modularize legal intake forms with a configurable architecture using Typescript, React, and AST parsing to reduce effort to spin up new forms from 20 to 5 points (4x)
• Mentor engineers and lead a number of features to production, delighting customers with NPS > 70
• Lead the Backend Working Group and contribute to both the Front End and Testing working groups

### Software Engineering Fellow, Lead @ Hack Reactor
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Manage and mentor over 160 engineers through a 750+ hour advanced software engineering immersive
• Conduct code reviews and live debugging sessions to ensure technical readiness
• Instruct engineers in computer science fundamentals and full-stack engineering concepts


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Business/Cinema; Business Scholars Honors Program
University of Southern California

### Juris Doctor (JD) in Law; Editor in Chief of Tech. & I.P. Review
Tulane University Law School

### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive in Highest Grade on Technical Assessment
Hack Reactor

### Beverly Hills High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aarontesfai
- GitHub: https://github.com/lighthurst

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Last updated: 2026-03-22