name
Aidan Feldman
description
Web developer by day, dancer by night.
url
https://api.afeld.me
email
[email protected]
location
city
Brooklyn
state
NY
country
US
education
  • school
    University of Michigan
    location
    city
    Ann Arbor
    state
    MI
    country
    US
    start_date
    2005-08
    end_date
    2010-08
    degrees
    • title
      BSE
      major
      Computer Science Engineering
    • title
      BFA
      major
      Dance
  • school
    Oak Park and River Forest High School
    location
    city
    Oak Park
    state
    IL
    country
    US
    start_date
    2001-08
    end_date
    2005-06
experience
coding
  • organization
    Technology Transformation Services (TTS)
    url
    https://handbook.18f.gov/tech-portfolio/
    title
    Technology Director
    description
    Information Technology (IT) Specialist in Information Security (INFOSEC). Leads a team within the General Services Administration (GSA) that oversees, manages, and coordinates everything technology-related that cuts across TTS, as well as anything technology-related that will affect TTS from the outside. Particular focus on security, compliance, infrastructure, and tech policy.
    start_date
    2019-07-07
    end_date
    hours
    40
    employees
    11500
    skills
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    • Docker
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • IT policy
    • JavaScript
    • security compliance
    responsibilities
    • group
      FAS Systems Governance Committee (FSGC)
      title
      Voting Member
      description
      Help decide on and steer budgets for IT projects in the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS). Drove the Committee from accepting multi-million-dollar budget requests to a phased funding process that encourages agile practices of being user-centered and delivering value quickly.
      url
      https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/organization/federal-acquisition-service
    • group
      Mac Working Group
      title
      description
      Serve as a primary stakeholder representing 400 Mac users across the agency, advocating for the workstation needs of technical team members.
      url
    • group
      title
      Authorizing Official
      description
      Responsible for the security risk of ten systems across TTS, including cross-agency platforms like data.gov, Federalist, and search.gov.
      url
  • organization
    Upsolve
    url
    https://upsolve.org/
    title
    Freelancer
    description
    Improving development workflows and some backend features of the site that helps people file for bankruptcy.
    start_date
    2019-06-10
    end_date
    2019-11-04
    hours
    8
    employees
    8
    skills
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • JavaScript
    • Docker
  • organization
    Brooklyn Rail
    url
    https://brooklynrail.org/
    title
    Advisory Board Member
    description
    Helping improve the infrastructure, workflow, and software use of this non-profit arts publication.
    start_date
    2019-01-07
    end_date
    hours
    5
    employees
    12
    skills
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • MySQL
    • PHP
  • organization
    xD
    url
    https://xdgov.github.io/xd.gov/
    title
    Data Engineer (GS-15)
    description
    Helped to "build experimental data products for the public good" with federal agencies from this startup within the Census Bureau. Worked the CTO and Standards Working Group on a Bureau-wide Open Source Policy and various software approvals and process changes.
    start_date
    2018-09-02
    end_date
    2019-07-06
    hours
    40
    employees
    4300
    skills
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • IT policy
    • Python
    • security compliance
    responsibilities
    • group
      Recalls
      title
      description
      Worked with regulatory agencies and large companies to improve the quality, consistency, and delivery of federal recall data through their APIs.
      url
      https://www.usa.gov/recalls
    • group
      Census Self-Response Red Team
      title
      description
      To test the fraud / suspicious response detection systems for the 2020 Census, helped develop various scenarios and then create synthetic data to represent them.
      url
      https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2019/03/census-bureau-boosts-cybersecurity-efforts-ahead-2020-count
    • group
      FISMAtic
      title
      description
      Leading a project to reduce the amount of time spent authoring, reviewing, and editing the security compliance documentation leading up to an Authority to Operate (ATO).
      url
      https://github.com/uscensusbureau/fismatic
  • organization
    NYC Planning Labs
    url
    https://planninglabs.nyc
    title
    Consultant
    description
    Helped the Labs group within New York City's Department of City Planning improve their DevSecOps practices.
    start_date
    2018-06
    end_date
    2018-08
    hours
    10
    employees
    325
    skills
    • Ansible
    • DigitalOcean
    • Docker
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • JavaScript
    • security compliance
    • teaching
    responsibilities
    • group
      title
      Discovery
      description
      Helped the team identify security threats andconcerns around their software development, deployment, and operation. We then looked at the underlying problems and possible solutions for each. Tasks were then prioritized based on the ranking of the corresponding concern.
      url
      https://medium.com/nycplanninglabs/devops-and-security-on-a-small-team-8709cfc5b0aa
    • group
      title
      Infrastructure as code
      description
      Automated the hardening and configuration of their servers, while finding ways to minimize the operational burden.
      url
      https://github.com/NYCPlanning/labs-infrastructure
  • organization
    18F
    url
    https://18f.gsa.gov
    title
    Innovation Specialist (GS-15)
    description
    Federal employee in the General Services Administration (GSA), working with internal and external government agency partners to modernize technology practices through multiple engagements. Served as a subject matter expert in development of custom web applications, DevSecOps, ATOs, and open source. Participated and led multiple user research sessions.
    start_date
    2014-10-20
    end_date
    2018-09-01
    hours
    40
    employees
    11500
    skills
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    • Ansible
    • CSS
    • Docker
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • Go
    • HTML
    • IT policy
    • JavaScript
    • Jekyll
    • Jenkins
    • management
    • Packer
    • PostgreSQL
    • public speaking
    • Python
    • React
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Ruby
    • security compliance
    • teaching
    • Terraform
    responsibilities
    • group
      eQIP
      title
      Frontend Lead
      description
      Rebuilt the extensive form used for federal employment and contracting background investigations.
      url
      https://github.com/18F/e-QIP-prototype
    • group
      DevSecOps Working Group
      title
      Technical Lead
      description
      Helped GSA systems migrate to the cloud by developing reusable components and processes around logging, monitoring, deployment, operating system hardening, automated testing, etc. This helped systems to incorporate operational best practices, while streamlining their security assessments. Helped build the DevSecOps-driven GRACE infrastucture-as-a-service (IaaS) platform through hybrid cloud + on-premise network design and infrastructure as code.
      url
      https://tech.gsa.gov/guides/dev_sec_ops_guide/
    • group
      CIO Liaison
      title
      description
      Worked with GSA's Office of the Chief Information Officer to ensure 18F got the support it needed for its business while maintaining compliance. Regularly engaged with the GSA Security team and other stakeholders to find compromise between security, compliance, and operational efficiency. Helped create the FedRAMP Tailored baseline to make it easier for tech companies to work with government.
      url
    • group
      Project Boise
      title
      Project Lead
      description
      Led a team to research software security compliance (Authority to Operate, or ATO) processes across the federal government, to understand how they vary across agencies, and how they could be streamlined. Managed budget of $165,000, staff, and project direction, while interacting with Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), the Nation Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), vendors, the White House, and more.
      url
      https://boise.18f.gov
    • group
      ATO Sprinting/Streamlining Team
      title
      description
      Helped 18F projects achieve FISMA compliance by writing documentation and providing hands-on assistance with improving their application security and completing compliance documentation, while ensuring DevSecOps best practices. We were able to reduce the time to ATO from six months to one.
      url
      https://before-you-ship.18f.gov
    • group
      cloud.gov
      title
      description
      Helped build a Platform as a Service for the federal government, specifically focusing on reducing friction to adoption. Wrote user documentation, built services, and provided training.
      url
      https://cloud.gov
    • group
      OpenControl / Compliance Masonry
      title
      description
      Helped create tooling and community around improving the security compliance process, by encouraging structured compliance data, reuse, and automation.
      url
      http://open-control.org
    • group
      C2
      title
      Technical Lead
      description
      Built a business process automation tool for streamlining purchase approvals, while providing better auditing capabilities.
      url
      https://github.com/18F/C2
    • group
      title
      Engineering Facilitator
      description
      Supervising a team of engineers, providing mentorship, soliciting peer reviews, mediating conflicts, etc.
      url
  • organization
    GitHub
    url
    https://education.github.com
    title
    Education Hacker
    description
    Company building tools for software development workflows. Worked to understand students' and teachers' obstacles to using professional software development practices in their classes, and conducted trainings on collaborative coding internationally. Was responsible for the system accepting and processing educational user upgrades, as well as determining best practices for classroom workflows.
    start_date
    2013-08
    end_date
    2014-06
    hours
    40
    employees
    300
    skills
    • CSS
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • HTML
    • JavaScript
    • Jekyll
    • jQuery
    • public speaking
    • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
    • teaching
  • organization
    Artsy
    url
    https://www.artsy.net/
    title
    Software Engineer (Contract)
    description
    Online fine art marketplace. Full-stack web development on the site and APIs, as well as building an open source business statistics reporting framework.
    start_date
    2013-05
    end_date
    2013-08
    hours
    40
    employees
    70
    skills
    • Backbone.js
    • CSS
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • HTML
    • JavaScript
    • jQuery
    • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
  • organization
    Jux
    url
    title
    Senior Web Developer
    description
    As the only full-stack web developer at the small (now defunct) blogging startup, touched all pieces of the application, including social features and integrations of the site, layout templating, navigation, the image processing pipeline, and much of the API, as well as helping guide vision for the product.
    start_date
    2011-01
    end_date
    2013-05
    hours
    40
    employees
    5
    skills
    • Backbone.js
    • CSS
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • HTML
    • JavaScript
    • jQuery
    • MongoDB
    • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
  • organization
    Open source contribution
    url
    https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/savedquery/197011051441:4bf2e709159e4256803f2f3637e30ef1
    title
    description
    Have contributed to many open source projects, including Ansible, Backbone.js, Cloud Foundry, ConcourseCI, Dep (the Go package manager), Docker, Hubot, Jekyll, Packer, Terraform, TravisCI, and Vagrant.
    start_date
    2010-09
    end_date
    hours
    8
    skills
    • Ansible
    • CSS
    • Docker
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • Go
    • HTML
    • JavaScript
    • Jekyll
    • Jenkins
    • jQuery
    • management
    • Packer
    • PostgreSQL
    • Python
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Ruby
    • Sinatra
    • teaching
    • Terraform
  • organization
    American Express Publishing
    url
    title
    Web Developer (Contract)
    description
    Contractor building content management tools for FoodAndWine.com, as well as promotional micro sites for advertising partners.
    start_date
    2010-08
    end_date
    2011-01
    hours
    40
    employees
    200
    skills
    • CSS
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • JavaScript
    • HTML
    • jQuery
    • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Sinatra
teaching
  • organization
    NYU Wagner
    url
    http://www.nyu.edu/
    title
    Adjunct Faculty
    description
    Teaching Python Coding for Public Policy at New York University, introducing students to software development and data anlysis though code.
    start_date
    2020-04
    end_date
    hours
    5
    employees
    19000
    skills
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • Pandas
    • Python
    • public speaking
    • teaching
  • organization
    The New School
    url
    https://opencampus.newschool.edu/program/certificate-programs/art-design-with-parsons/web-design-and-development
    title
    Adjunct Faculty
    description
    Teaching a class on Working with APIs and AJAX through the Open Campus Web Design and Development certificate.
    start_date
    2020-03
    end_date
    hours
    4
    employees
    1000
    skills
    • JavaScript
    • public speaking
    • teaching
  • organization
    Cornell Tech
    url
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-hk6GzhV1yHU1T0E7uqcdNTtvv3fuq1_WECQOWOT2zw/edit
    title
    Adjunct Faculty
    description
    Taught the Startup Systems course, a core class for the Master of Engineering in Computer Science program, which covered web development from HTML to APIs to servers. The class covered the basics of JavaScript, Python, Terraform, Ansible, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for students with a broad range of experience levels.
    start_date
    2016-08
    end_date
    2016-12
    hours
    20
    employees
    10000
  • organization
    EmpireConf
    url
    http://empireconf.org/
    title
    Organizer
    description
    One of the organizers for the annual EmpireNode/EmpireConf JavaScript conferences.
    start_date
    2015-01
    end_date
    hours
    1
    skills
    • community organizing
    • public speaking
    • teaching
  • organization
    New York University
    url
    http://www.nyu.edu/
    title
    Adjunct Faculty
    description
    start_date
    2012-06
    end_date
    2015-05
    hours
    5
    employees
    19000
    skills
    • CSS
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • HTML
    • JavaScript
    • NodeJS
    • public speaking
    • teaching
    responsibilities
    • group
      School of Professional Studies
      title
      Advanced JavaScript
      description
      After redesigning the curriculum, taught the Advanced JavaScript course for twelve consecutive semesters, helped students gain an in-depth understanding of the language while teaching best practices for modern front-end development. The course material, which is fully available to the public online, became the showcase class for GitHub's Education program.
      url
      https://advanced-js.github.io/syllabus/
    • group
      Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
      title
      Building for Learning
      description
      Was asked to create and teach an interdisciplinary graduate-level course around building interactive educational tools, while also covering front-end web development. In addition to rapid prototyping of physical and digital learning materials, also brought in experts from the educational technology to give students an understanding of taking projects from concept to product.
      url
      https://github.com/bfl-itp/syllabus
  • organization
    City University of New York (CUNY)
    url
    https://github.com/cuny-nytech/syllabus
    title
    Instructor
    description
    Designed curriculum and was lead instructor for the NYTech program, which helped seniors and graduate students build practical skills necessary for joining startups based in New York City, such as version control, web development, and resume writing. The culminating project was a class-wide collaboration to build a new site for a non-profit.
    start_date
    2014-09
    end_date
    2015-05
    hours
    5
    employees
    43000
    skills
    • CSS
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • HTML
    • JavaScript
    • NodeJS
    • PostgreSQL
    • public speaking
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Ruby
    • teaching
  • organization
    General Assembly
    url
    https://generalassemb.ly
    title
    Instructor
    description
    Taught JavaScript as part of the Front-End + Rails curriculum at this school for digital skills.
    start_date
    2013-02
    end_date
    2013-03
    hours
    8
    employees
    3200
    skills
    • CSS
    • HTML
    • JavaScript
    • jQuery
    • public speaking
    • teaching
  • organization
    Hacker Hours
    url
    http://hackerhours.org
    title
    Creator
    description
    Created a meetup group to provide mentorship for individuals learning to code. Has grown to 7,000 members across seven states, occurring up to four times per week in NYC alone.
    start_date
    2011-09
    end_date
    hours
    4
    skills
    • community organizing
    • CSS
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • HTML
    • JavaScript
    • Jekyll
    • jQuery
    • PostgreSQL
    • Python
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Ruby
    • teaching
dance
  • organization
    Barkin/Selissen Project
    director
    • Kyla Barkin
    • Aaron Selissen
    url
    http://www.barkinselissenproject.com
    start_date
    2014-03
    end_date
  • organization
    danceTactics Performance Group
    director
    Keith Thompson
    url
    http://dancetactics.org
    start_date
    2012-05
    end_date
  • organization
    Artichoke Dance Company
    director
    Lynn Neuman
    url
    http://artichokedance.org
    start_date
    2010-10
    end_date
  • organization
    Chavasse Dance & Performance
    director
    Amy Chavasse
    url
    http://chavassedanceandperformance.com
    start_date
    2010-06
    end_date
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medium
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speakerdeck
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stack_overflow
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youtube
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talks
  • title
    Human-Centered DevOps
    event
    DevOpsDC
    date
    2020-04-14
    url
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wIvXfhWpx0
  • title
    The Future of Civic Tech
    event
    School of Data NYC
    date
    2020-03-07
    url
    https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nycsodata301/videos/202714494
  • title
    Continuous Delivery workshop
    event
    DevOps & Agile Digital Transformation for Government conference (Australia)
    date
    2019-11-26
    url
    https://github.com/afeld/delivery#readme
  • title
    Open Source Maintenance
    event
    Open Source NYC
    date
    2019-02-20
    url
    https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1u_fHwM0LN8WpIqd2HOlqi0EGPBmlV6ZK0EJrkTroTGM/edit
  • title
    Love and Agony: Containers in Government
    event
    Docker Government Symposium
    date
    2018-04-11
    url
    https://speakerdeck.com/aidanfeldman/love-and-agony-containers-in-government
  • title
    Achieving ATO: Ongoing Authorization & Containers
    event
    Red Hat Government Symposium
    date
    2017-11-09
    url
    https://www.fedscoop.com/events/redhatgov/2017/agenda/
  • title
    Automation Tools for Risk Management
    event
    NIST Risk Management Framework Workshop
    date
    2017-10-03
    url
    https://csrc.nist.gov/Events/2017/NIST-Risk-Management-Framework-Workshop
  • title
    Getting Started Contributing to Open Source
    event
    Dev Bootcamp
    date
    2016-10-25
    url
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzlpCwsNLas
  • title
    OpenControl Demo & Quickstart
    event
    OpenControl Symposium
    date
    2016-10-20
    url
    http://open-control.org/event2016/#opencontrol-demo-quickstart
  • title
    18F and OSS in the U.S. Federal Government
    event
    The Changelog podcast
    date
    2016-11-25
    url
    https://changelog.com/podcast/230
  • title
    cloud.gov and the new marriage of policy and technology in government
    event
    Rewiring Government podcast
    date
    2016-09-14
    url
    https://www.dobt.co/blog/interview-aidan-feldman/
  • title
    Search for Static Sites
    event
    The New Dynamic meetup
    date
    2016-08-04
    url
    https://www.jamstack.nyc/video/search-for-static-sites/
  • title
    Learning Teaching
    date
    2016-08-02
    url
    https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1owZ4sfp_qpy2L_23BPBeM8YEmZxeddSJBFgLDJLponM/edit
  • title
    Everything I Think I Understand About IT Compliance
    event
    DigitalGov
    date
    2016-07-25
    url
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nc4GXPxpQg
  • title
    cloud.gov with Aidan Feldman
    event
    Software Engineering Daily podcast
    date
    2016-06-26
    url
    https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/06/26/cloud-gov-with-aidan-feldman/
  • title
    DevOps at Large: Modernizing apps and infrastructure in the federal government
    event
    O'Reilly OSCON
    date
    2016-05-18
    url
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Drua-AEBg
  • title
    Dance, for the Unitiated
    date
    2016-03-14
    url
    https://slides.com/afeld/dance/
  • title
    How to Build Platforms and Influence People
    date
    2016-03-01
    url
    https://gist.github.com/afeld/42e65d2b83786eabde1b
  • title
    18F on the Mozilla Science Lab Project Call
    date
    2016-02-25
    url
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBQrIDZKMK8
  • title
    Dabbling in Docker
    date
    2016-01-25
    url
    https://speakerdeck.com/aidanfeldman/dabbling-in-docker
  • title
    E Pluribus Unum: Building better software in the US government
    event
    Pivotal New York Tech Talks meetup
    date
    2015-07-14
    url
    http://original.livestream.com/pivotallabs/video?clipId=pla_46c12eee-de95-410a-bcb5-54918f7edfae
  • title
    Open by Default
    event
    Thoughtbot's Giant Robots podcast
    date
    2015-06-15
    url
    http://giantrobots.fm/151
  • title
    Interview about Hacker Hours
    event
    CodeNewbie Podcast
    date
    2015-06-01
    url
    https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast/hacker-hours
  • title
    Git, Graphically
    date
    2015-05-18
    url
    https://speakerdeck.com/aidanfeldman/git-graphically
  • title
    Introduction to Promises in JavaScript
    date
    2015-04-28
    url
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeQYjpckudA
  • title
    Running Our Own Heroku
    date
    2015-03-24
    url
    https://gist.github.com/afeld/0500a73578bc29906e7c
  • title
    Magickly, Mustachio, & Stateless APIs
    event
    Code Genius meetup
    date
    2015-02-26
    url
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3VdlBDCJSA
  • title
    Intro to Backbone Unit Testing
    event
    New York JavaScript meetup
    date
    2014-10-30
    url
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaq_mirZ0UA
  • title
    How GitHub Does Collaboration
    event
    Campus Party Brazil keynote
    date
    2013-11-20
    url
    https://github.com/afeld/gh_collab
  • title
    Git & GitHub, Up & Running
    event
    Campus Party Brazil workshop
    date
    2013-10-22
    url
    https://gist.github.com/afeld/7096908
  • title
    Education the GitHub Way
    date
    2013-10-12
    url
    https://github.com/afeld/edu_the_gh_way
  • title
    JavaScript: the little language everyone loves to hate
    date
    2013-09-30
    url
    https://github.com/afeld/js-overview
  • title
    Getting Serious (with Front-End JavaScript)
    date
    2013-07-08
    url
    http://afeld.github.io/getting_serious/slides/
  • title
    Test to Learn
    event
    Flatiron School guest lecture
    date
    2013-06-20
    url
    http://afeld.github.io/test_to_learn/
  • title
    Web Development Basics (Git, MAMP, Wordpress and FTP)
    date
    2013-05-13
    url
    https://github.com/afeld/web_dev_basics
  • title
    MongoDB + Ruby Workshop
    date
    2013-03-27
    url
    https://github.com/afeld/mongo_ruby_workshop
  • title
    Hackathon Workshop
    date
    2013-03-26
    url
    https://github.com/afeld/hackathon_workshop/wiki
  • title
    Introduction to Backbone.js
    date
    2013-03-11
    url
    https://github.com/afeld/intro_to_backbone
  • title
    Single-Page App Architecture
    date
    2013-03-07
    url
    https://github.com/afeld/spaa
  • title
    Ruby
    event
    Seven Languages in Seven Months meetup
    date
    2012-10-24
    url
    https://gist.github.com/afeld/3944262
  • title
    What Developers Want
    description
    Talk and panelist on how to make APIs developer-friendly. I did a slow jam.
    event
    Business of APIs Conference
    date
    2012-10-17
    url
    http://afeld.me/nerdery/816975
  • title
    Junior Developer panel
    description
    Organizer and moderator of panel on how to get your first job as a programmer.
    event
    NYC on Rails meetup
    date
    2012-09-19
    url
    http://afeld.me/nerdery/522101
  • title
    Learn2Code
    event
    Hacking for Hustlers meetup
    date
    2011-11-14
    url
    http://afeld.me/nerdery/38274
  • title
    Animation with HTML5: An Overview
    description
    A lightning talk about ways to do animation in HTML5 and CSS3.
    date
    2010-12-30
    url
    https://www.scribd.com/doc/46086316/animation-with-html5-an-overview
  • title
    Plano Real: How Fake Money Saved Brazil
    description
    A lightning talk about Plano Real, a plan which stabilized the Brazilian economy in the mid-1990's.
    date
    2010-12-30
    url
    https://www.scribd.com/doc/46086444/plano-real-how-fake-money-saved-brazil
  • title
    Ruby Fibers
    description
    A lightning talk about Ruby Fibers, a feature added in v1.9 that adds "green thread" support.
    date
    2010-12-30
    url
    https://www.scribd.com/presentation/46086446/Ruby-Fibers
  • title
    Firesheep!
    description
    A lightning talk about Firesheep, a Firefox plugin for doing "sidejacking" (a.k.a. breaking into other people's accounts).
    date
    2010-12-30
    url
    https://www.scribd.com/doc/46086447/firesheep
writeups
  • title
    What are the pros and cons of working in civic tech
    publisher
    CodeNewbie
    date
    2020-03-02
    url
    https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-working-in-civic-tech
  • title
    Champions of Digital Transformation
    publisher
    FedScoop
    date
    2019-11-05
    url
    https://www.fedscoop.com/champions-of-digital-transformation/aidan-feldman/#video
  • title
    Decoding DevOps
    publisher
    Criterion Conferences
    date
    2019-10-01
    url
    https://www.criterionconferences.com/blog/government/decoding-devops-aidan-feldman/
  • title
    Dancing in Bodega Bags? These Artist-Activists Call It Trashion
    publisher
    Bedford + Bowery
    date
    2019-06-17
    url
    https://bedfordandbowery.com/2019/06/dancing-in-bodega-bags-these-artist-activists-call-it-trashion/
  • title
    Census Thinks a Clippy-Style AI Assistant Could Speed Up Security Authorizations
    publisher
    Nextgov
    date
    2019-05-29
    url
    https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/05/census-thinks-clippy-style-ai-assistant-could-speed-security-authorizations/157339/
  • title
    College students make musical instruments from trash in the L.A. River
    publisher
    L.A. Times
    date
    2019-04-05
    url
    https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-future-currents-la-river-20190405-story.html
  • title
    Census Bureau Boosts Cybersecurity Efforts Ahead of 2020 Count
    publisher
    FedTech Magazine
    date
    2019-04-02
    url
    https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2019/03/census-bureau-boosts-cybersecurity-efforts-ahead-2020-count
  • title
    GSA, NGA shrink time to cyber-approve systems from year to month
    publisher
    Federal News Radio
    date
    2018-08-06
    url
    https://federalnewsradio.com/reporters-notebook-jason-miller/2018/08/gsa-nga-shrink-time-to-cyber-approve-systems-from-year-to-month/
  • title
    How To Build A Mustached Message Service With Twilio MMS And Python
    publisher
    Twilio blog
    date
    2014-09-18
    url
    https://www.twilio.com/blog/2014/09/how-to-build-a-mustached-message-service-with-twilio-mms-and-python.html
  • title
    Here Are the Most and Least Popular Citi Bike Stations in New York City
    publisher
    Nerve
    date
    2014-06-19
    url
    https://web.archive.org/web/20151027110119/http://www.nerve.com/infographics/most-popular-least-popular-citibike-stations-new-york-city
  • title
    Campus Party: Hacker do GitHub explica crescimento da 'rede social' de desenvolvedores
    publisher
    Exame
    date
    2014-01-31
    url
    https://exame.abril.com.br/tecnologia/campus-party-hacker-do-github-explica-crescimento-da-rede-social-de-desenvolvedores/
  • title
    Já estamos no quarto e penúltimo dia de conteúdos da Campus Party Brasil 2014!
    publisher
    Campus Party blog
    date
    2014-01-31
    url
    http://blog.campus-party.com.br/post/75170721637/j%C3%A1-estamos-no-quarto-e-pen%C3%BAltimo-dia-de-conte%C3%BAdos
  • title
    The Man of the (Hacker) Hour
    publisher
    Gilt Tech blog
    date
    2013-08-22
    url
    http://tech.gilt.com/post/59016326319/the-man-of-the-hacker-hour/
  • title
    Hacker Hours with Aidan Feldman
    publisher
    Desmond Rawls blog
    date
    2013-08-10
    url
    https://web.archive.org/web/20150204160224/http://desmondrawls.com/2013/08/10/hacker-hours-with-aidan-feldman/
  • title
    Hacker Hours: The awesome grassroots meetup that teaches New Yorkers to code
    publisher
    The Next Web
    date
    2012-05-14
    url
    https://tnw.to/1EOo7
  • title
    Nerds Ditch Grammys for New York's First Music Hackday
    publisher
    TechCrunch
    date
    2011-02-14
    url
    https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/14/music-hackday/
writing
  • title
    Cloud is not a virtue
    type
    blog
    publisher
    18F
    date
    2019-02-07
    url
    https://18f.gsa.gov/2019/02/07/the-cloud-is-not-a-virtue/
  • title
    Keeping an Eye on Your Systems
    type
    blog
    publisher
    NYC Planning Labs
    date
    2018-11-20
    url
    https://medium.com/nycplanninglabs/keeping-an-eye-on-your-systems-97332d689044
  • title
    DevOps and Security on a Small Team
    type
    blog
    publisher
    NYC Planning Labs
    date
    2018-11-20
    url
    https://medium.com/nycplanninglabs/devops-and-security-on-a-small-team-8709cfc5b0aa
  • title
    I joined the Census Bureau!
    type
    blog
    publisher
    self
    date
    2018-09-07
    url
    https://medium.com/@aidanfeldman/i-joined-the-census-bureau-983f8a9ce135
  • title
    Shared infrastructure as code
    type
    blog
    publisher
    18F
    date
    2018-08-15
    url
    https://18f.gsa.gov/2018/08/15/shared-infrastructure-as-code/
  • title
    Taking the ATO process from 6 months to 30 days
    type
    blog
    publisher
    18F
    date
    2018-07-19
    url
    https://18f.gsa.gov/2018/07/19/taking-the-ato-process-from-6-months-to-30-days/
  • title
    Open Source for New York City
    type
    testimony
    publisher
    self
    date
    2016-02-24
    url
    https://medium.com/@aidanfeldman/open-source-for-new-york-city-3c23e75cb43
  • title
    What is jQuery?
    type
    blog
    publisher
    One Month
    date
    2015-09-17
    url
    https://web.archive.org/web/20170508052915/http://learn.onemonth.com:80/what-is-jquery
  • title
    How To Welcome New Coders To A Civic Hackathon
    type
    blog
    publisher
    18F Blog
    date
    2015-04-03
    url
    https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/04/03/how-to-welcome-new-coders-to-a-civic-hackathon/
  • title
    Learn Ruby on Rails as You Modify a Craigslist Clone
    type
    tutorial
    publisher
    Thinkful
    date
    2014-10-24
    url
    https://www.thinkful.com/learn/ruby-on-rails-tutorial/
  • title
    Advanced JS class information for teachers
    type
    blog
    publisher
    self
    date
    2014-06-26
    url
    https://github.com/advanced-js/syllabus/blob/master/meta.md
  • title
    GitHub Classroom Guide
    type
    tutorial
    publisher
    GitHub
    date
    2014-02-10
    url
    https://education.github.com/guide
  • title
    Developing a Backbone.js Edge
    type
    book
    publisher
    Backstop Media
    date
    2013-04-10
    url
    https://bleedingedgepress.com/backbone-js/
  • title
    Hacker Hours: The awesome grassroots meetup that teaches New Yorkers to code
    type
    interview
    publisher
    The Next Web
    date
    2012-05-14
    url
    http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/05/14/hacker-hours-the-awesome-grassroots-meetup-that-teaches-new-yorkers-to-code
  • title
    Hacker Olympics, the Un-Hackathon
    type
    blog
    publisher
    Twilio
    date
    2012-03-15
    url
    https://www.twilio.com/blog/2012/03/hacker-olympics-the-un-hackathon-guest-post-by-aidan-feldman.html