Aaron Held
Co-Owner at Market Finder
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Held is a seasoned technology leader and founder with three decades of experience building scalable, cost-aware products and high-performing engineering organizations. He has led engineering and reliability at rapid-growth consumer platforms like goPuff and Swiftly, driving large system re-architecture, international expansions, and cloud migrations while keeping operational resilience front and center. Known for mentoring engineers into business-minded technical leaders, he balances hands-on infrastructure and incident management with product and commercial strategy. Currently exploring a B2B2C venture focused on affordable, nutritious meals, he combines customer discovery with pragmatic technical design. Based in Philadelphia, Aaron brings a background in biomedical engineering and a habit of solving messy, real-world problems—evident in both his professional work and creative home automation solutions.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Biomedical Engineering, BS Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBiomedical Engineering (Signal Processing), Biomedical Engineering (Signal Processing) at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (70)
multilingual10
hugo9
hugo-theme9
command-line-interface9
grayscale9
client-library8
azure8
high-performance8
azure-cli8
google-api8
airtable8
django-framework7
microsoft-azure7
django7
nodejs-client7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aheld/MarsRover
Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
Mars Rover training in C# / go / javascript
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 7 months
golangjavascriptmarstrainingmars-rover
aheld/aaronheld-blog
Jul 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:4 PRs, 99 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 1 month
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