Summary
Aaron Trank is a Senior Front End Engineer with 11 years of experience building product-focused, UX-driven web and mobile experiences, currently crafting IMDbPro features. He specializes in React Native architecture and design-engineering practices, having led prototyping, component libraries, and over-the-air experiments at Amazon that became foundations for multiple product teams. Comfortable bridging product, design, and engineering, he has shipped cross-platform features for Alexa and Amazon Shopping and established CI, multi-root app architectures, and upgrade paths for complex React Native codebases. His background includes mission-critical engineering at JPL on Mars missions and founding a full-stack agency, reflecting a rare mix of polished consumer product work and deep systems-level experience. Aaron recently completed an MS in Computer Science and continues to combine hands-on coding with mentorship, hiring, and design-led technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach
Masters of Science, Human Computer Interaction, Masters of Science, Human Computer Interaction at Georgia Institute of Technology
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at California State University, Northridge
Advanced Software Engineering, Advanced Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
English