# Ari Rose > Senior Software Engineer at Github (Copilot/Agents) Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/arirose Interdisciplinary builder, thinker, and communicator with engineering skills and product instincts. Over a decade of experience in large-scale, full-stack web engineering leaning towards the front-end. Strategic, pragmatic, collaborative, and occasionally funny. I aspire to be a great teammate/mentor/mentee, intelligent decision-maker, and business-grower, focusing on the most effective points of leverage that vary situationally: through code, design, product, process, or even facilitating better conversations. I’m likely to be equally interested in the big picture and the details — breadth and depth — but I focus on team success and getting things done above all. Domain experience includes technology startups, design, dev tools, art, education, talent recruitment, music, film, advertising, and branding. I enjoy working with people who are some combination of collaborative, talented, creative, humble, humorous, thoughtful, and articulate. If you’re looking for mentorship or anything sounds interesting in my profile, please send a personalized message. I’m happy to chat if my schedule allows! ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ GitHub Jan 2024 – Present | United States * Agent HQ * Copilot coding agent/AI tools * Projects/Issues ### Tech Lead, Staff Software Engineer @ Substack Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | United States * Core architecture, planning, and execution of high-growth consumer product areas: Posts, editor, dashboard, podcasting, audio, and video. * Tech lead, interim mgmt, FE guild lead, and frequently client-facing * Shaped product roadmaps through strong cross-functional collaboration with leadership, product, design, and partnerships * Creator and co-maintainer of design system and component library * Leadership on frontend platform for a 35+ person engineering org * Several growth and enterprise projects, like referrals, tags, social links, and group subscriptions * Direct client-facing work for large publication retention and reactivation * Industry-vertical development (e.g. finance and consulting features), including a new line of business from a hackathon project * Typescript, React/Preact, Node, AWS, Postgres/Knex/Objection, CI/CD, Testing, Analytics ### VP, Senior Product Engineer @ Sotheby's Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area * Lead engineer on CRM system for high net-worth clients * Product engineer on consumer item submission, seller's portal, ML pricing frontend, back-office consignment task manager, and fine-art object database * Users include the public, art specialists, researchers, and business-getters. * Typescript, React, Next.js, Node, Docker, AWS, CI/CD, Testing, Analytics, Serverless, Lambda, Postgres, GraphQL ### Web Engineer @ Spotify Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area * Architected and built data and analytics platforms used across all Spotify business functions * Platform products included audience analytics, company knowledge graph, and telemetry visualization * Aligned with central design to overhaul UX and standardize visual language for all analytics teams * Led DevOps work by designing and implementing cloud-based systems involving several microservices and application servers * Generated insights programmatically and visualized data from (very) large datasets * Contributed to Reactochart data visualization library * Javascript, ES6, React, Node, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Datastore, Storage), CI/CD, Testing, Instrumentation ### Senior Front-End Engineer and Product Designer @ GoWatchIt Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area * From scratch, created 'Superwidget'​: An API-backed Javascript SDK and theming engine for showing comprehensive movie, tv, and theatrical availabilities along with alerting, live TV, merchandise, recommendations, and trailer capabilities. * Led projects with stakeholders including major Hollywood studios (Warner Brothers, Universal, Disney) and content outlets (Entertainment Weekly, NY Times, Buzzfeed, Hollywood Reporter, FOX, Roger Ebert, etc). * Engineered products that are widely distributed at scale with thousands of impressions per minute and hundreds of millions of impressions yearly, while also being mobile-friendly and user-centered. * Designed and developed multiple UI's backed by a sophisticated film and TV analytics platform. These include the consumer GoWatchIt.com redesign (http://gowatchit.com), the GWI360 analytics dashboard for studios, the Superwidget Javascript SDK deployment, and on-demand microsites for film/tv releases. * Javascript, React, Ember, Rails, SCSS, UX, design, patience. ### Front-End Developer and Product Designer @ Universum Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | New York City * Lead, architected, designed, programmed, and deployed consumer and B2B front-ends for multiple Rails applications reaching a worldwide university student audience. I had my hands in the whole stack from wireframes right the way through to deployment with Capistrano. * ERB/HAML/SASS/LESS/JavaScript * Functioned in various roles (designer, developer, asst. product manager) depending on the project. * Built internal and external metric dashboards * Created the company-wide branding concept approved by the executive team located in Stockholm, Sweden ### Campus Director @ The Flatiron School Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Founding employee at successful programming bootcamp school aimed at college graduates. Three big roles: * Head of Admissions: interviewed and managed a pipeline with hundreds of applicants. * Head of Employer Outreach: Established employer hiring program, planned job fairs, and recruited dozens of tech companies to employ our students upon graduation. * Head of Marketing and Culture: Created the school’s design brand (still in use), organized semester events, produced media assets, and created pitch decks and promotions. In addition, mentored students in front-end web development and design. ### UX/UI Designer/Front-End Developer @ Freelance Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Atlanta, GA (remote available) Consulted with software companies and ad agencies providing design and UX for client business. Deliverables included wireframes, prototypes, Photoshop files, presentations, and live production code. Clients included Anomaly Partners, DueProps, Pigeon, Classmates, E-Myth, DiMassimo Goldstein. ### Digital Creative Intern @ Anomaly Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Worked in teams to develop interactive and video experiences for Budweiser, Converse, Captain Morgan, and agency-side initiatives. ### Information Security Analyst @ Solutionary Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 Solved complex online security problems in a fast-paced environment. Created visual training materials and thwarted some would-be hackers. ## Education ### BA in Experimental Psychology Emory University Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ### Master of Business Administration - MBA in Business Administration and Management, General NYU Stern School of Business Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 ### Master of Arts - MA in Psychoanalytic Studies Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Interactive Development/Copywriting/Art Direction/Design Creative Circus Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ### IES Vienna Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arirose - Website: http://breedbreakdown.com - Website: http://www.ari-rose.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/arirose JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/arirose/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22