# Quinton Aiken

> Full-Stack Staff Software Engineer at Affirm

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

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I’m a full-stack staff software engineer, mentor, and team lead specializing in all things JavaScript.

Before I was writing code, I was a Physics and Math tutor. I know how valuable it can be to break down complex projects into simple, digestible tasks. When the fog clears, the switch is flipped, and a convoluted idea suddenly makes sense, it is a beautiful thing.

## Work Experience
### Full-Stack Staff Software Engineer @ Affirm
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Simple, honest and transparent financial products that improve the lives of consumers.

• Organized a significant tech debt reduction initiative across all microservices, resulting in over 90% fewer logged errors, decreased incident detection time, and automatic deployment rollbacks upon error detection

• Spearheaded the complete rewrite of Affirm's mobile codebase, establishing best practices for state management, data fetching, and other coding patterns. Created code generation scripts based on these best practices, significantly reducing development time for new features

• Helped coordinate the international launch of Affirm in Australia and Canada, defining project architecture, technical specifications, and task breakdown, while guiding engineers across multiple teams

### Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer @ Affirm
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Course Author @ Educative
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
• Created an interactive, self-paced online course on JavaScript web application security

### Coaching, Mentoring & Public Speaking @ Skilled Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023
• Facilitated mock technical interviews and personalized coaching to provide detailed, actionable feedback and help job seekers get hired

• Hosted public webinars and private workshops on various tech topics, including functional programming and React best practices

### Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer @ Cypress.io
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Atlanta Area
Fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.

• Wrote a system with Node.js, Postgres, and Redis to analyze changes to test results over time allowing customers to easily visualize test modifications and gain insight into historical test suite analytics (flaky rate/failure rate/performance)

• Led initiatives to migrate away from legacy REST APIs to more performant, developer-friendly GraphQL APIs

• Rewrote Webpack configuration to improve bundle splitting and caching and built internal scripts to assist daily developer tasks

### Full-Stack Senior Software Engineer @ Udacity
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
An online education platform that offers computer science programs built in partnership with Google, Facebook, GitHub, and more.

• Led a team of two engineers working on Udacity’s Enterprise microservices written in React, TypeScript, and Python

• Built custom, interactive data dashboards using D3 that offer clients a real-time look at learner activity and program health

• Designed APIs in GraphQL/Python/SQS enabling business partners to manage bulk enrollments easily

### Full-Stack Software Engineer @ Laurel & Wolf
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area
An interactive, online interior design platform that connects users to top interior designers.

• Led a team of three engineers converting legacy Ruby on Rails and Backbone applications to React and Redux

• Developed a modular, responsive, and accessible React component library tested with Storybook

### Front-End Software Engineer @ 40Digits
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Springfield, Missouri Area
A web development shop and dedicated partner to in-house marketing teams.

• Led a junior developer mentorship program emphasizing best practices and productive workflows

• Worked closely with project managers to improve AGILE/SCRUM development strategies

### Software Engineer @ Freelance
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
A self-employed business that created customized websites for advertising agencies and businesses.

• Developed responsive Wordpress themes for prominent brands including 7-Eleven, Nestle and Anheuser-Busch


## Education
### Hack Reactor
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Physics
Drury University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/quintonlouisaiken
- Website: http://quintonlouisaiken.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-23