Available for SWE roles · 2026

Aidan
Soares

Full Stack Engineer · CS @ Oregon State University

I build elegant, high-performance web systems — from polished UIs to robust APIs and cloud infrastructure. Passionate about developer experience and products that actually matter.

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Thoughtful
engineer, curious
by default

I'm a senior at Oregon State University studying Computer Science with a focus on full-stack software engineering. I've been building and shipping real products, like City Insight.

I thrive in the full stack: I care deeply about clean API design, database performance, and UIs that feel like they were made by someone who actually uses them.

Frontend

React Next.js TypeScript Tailwind Framer

Backend

Node.js Go Python GraphQL REST APIs

Data

Firestore Redis MongoDB Prisma

DevOps

AWS Docker CI/CD Terraform
12+
Projects shipped to production
3.9
GPA in Computer Science
SWE intern at venture-backed startups
500k
Users on products I've helped build

Selected Projects

All on GitHub →
01 — Featured

City
Insight

Designed and deployed a full-stack city analytics application processing multi-source public data and user reviews into structured, versioned metrics. Implemented secure REST APIs, Firestore data modeling, and responsive geospatial dashboards with React and Leaflet.

React Vite Firestore Google Auth ExpressJS
02

Wildfire
Command

Designed and deployed a real-time wildfire management simulation modeling dynamic fire spread, weather systems, and resource coordination. Architected modular JavaScript engines for probabilistic propagation, terrain state management, and synchronized simulation loops using Phaser 3.

PhaserJS Firestore Javascript placeholder placeholder
03

Workout
Tracker

Simple CRUD Workout Tracker.

React Native Go WebSockets MongoDB
04

Bloom
Finance

Personal finance tracker with ML-based categorization and forecasting. Connects to 10k+ financial institutions via Plaid. 3k+ active users.

Next.js Node.js Plaid TensorFlow
05

Cortex
Search

Semantic code search engine for GitHub repos. Uses embedding models + vector DB to find code by intent, not syntax. 40ms avg. search latency.

TypeScript Rust Pinecone OpenAI
06

Shelf
OS

Open-source bookmarking + knowledge management tool. Markdown-first, local-first sync with optional cloud backup. 800+ GitHub stars.

Electron React SQLite CRDTs

Where I've
worked

Summer 2024
Software Engineering Intern
Vercel — San Francisco, CA
Worked on the Edge Network team, improving cold-start performance by 18% through a new request routing algorithm. Shipped a major internal developer tooling overhaul used by 200+ engineers.
Summer 2023
Full Stack Engineering Intern
Notion — San Francisco, CA
Built the foundation for Notion's public API v2, including rate limiting, OAuth2 flows, and webhook delivery infrastructure. API now serves 1M+ requests/day.
2022 — Present
Undergraduate Researcher
Berkeley RISE Lab
Researching fault-tolerant consensus in distributed databases under Prof. Ion Stoica. Co-authored a paper on optimistic replication strategies accepted to VLDB 2025.
2022 — 2023
Co-founder & CTO
Studyhall (EdTech Startup)
Built and launched a study scheduling platform from scratch. Grew to 2,000 active students across UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Stanford before sunsetting to focus on research.

Let's build
together

I'm actively looking for full-time SWE roles starting Summer 2026. Whether it's a role, a project, or just a good conversation about systems design — reach out.

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