Aaron Appel
Staff Software Engineer at Gusto
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Appel is a Staff Software Engineer based in Denver with over a decade of experience building product-focused software across startups and scale-ups. He brings strong technical leadership and mentorship to teams, with a track record spanning frontend leadership at Yaguara, commerce platform work at Chord, and his current role at Gusto. Skilled in C++ and C# from a game-development background, he also excels in web and product engineering, emphasizing user experience and pragmatic delivery. Colleagues rely on him for clear communication, thoughtful architecture, and hands-on problem solving that balances speed and maintainability. Aaron seeks teams of talented, hard-working people where his blend of product empathy and engineering rigor can drive measurable impact. An underappreciated strength is his ability to translate game-development performance thinking into responsive, user-centered product engineering.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Mathematics at Northwestern College
Github Skills (4)
cpp3
imgui2
game-engine2
cross-platform1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AaronAppel/Mem
May 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
AaronAppel/Vault
Jun 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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