Aaron Arinder
Senior Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Arinder is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of backend experience, currently focused on building secure, scalable services at Apollo GraphQL after prior backend roles at StockX and DocNetwork. He brings a pragmatic functional-programming mindset to production systems and a special interest in application security that informs his design choices. Aaron's background in philosophy gives him a knack for clear reasoning and elevating API and data-model decisions beyond implementation detail. Based in Detroit, he pairs engineering rigor with hands-on curiosity—whether optimizing service behavior or perfecting a pale ale recipe. Outside work he pursues challenging boulder problems, reflecting a preference for iterative problem-solving and continual skill sharpening.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Philosophy, MA, Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeePhilosophy, Philosophy at Syracuse UniversityUniversity of Missouri
Github Skills (134)
code-generation10
kong10
apollo10
javascript10
linux10
codegen10
rust10
cli10
apollo-federation10
opentracing10
gateway10
nodejs10
dataloader10
css10
federation10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
aaronArinder/vim-config
May 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
aaronArinder/doots
Mar 2022 - Jul 2025
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 3 years 4 months
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