Summary
Aaron Frase is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable web platforms and developer-facing tooling across Ruby on Rails, JavaScript frameworks, AWS, and Go. He has a track record of shipping production-grade microservices, CI/CD improvements, and infrastructure automation—ranging from migrating millions of files with zero errors to cutting CI runtime by over 30%. Comfortable across the stack, Aaron has implemented asynchronous media pipelines, auth systems, public APIs, and developer CLIs, and he enforces high code quality (100% coverage in key services). A self-taught programmer with a background in network and systems administration, he brings deep curiosity for reading and analyzing source code to surface system-level insights and practical optimizations. Based in Shinjuku, Japan, he combines hands-on engineering with operational experience, often solving tricky interoperability problems between legacy and modern systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Network and System Administration/Administrator, Network and System Administration/Administrator at Stark State College
English