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
    18F
    url
    https://18f.gsa.gov
    title
    Innovation Specialist (GS-15)
    description
    Federal employee, working with internal and external government agency partners to modernize technology practices through multiple engagements. Served as a subject matter expert in web development, devops, and open source. Participated and led multiple user research sessions.
    start_date
    2014-10-20
    end_date
    skills
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    • Ansible
    • CSS
    • Docker
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • Go
    • HTML
    • JavaScript
    • Jekyll
    • Jenkins
    • management
    • Packer
    • PostgreSQL
    • public speaking
    • Python
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Ruby
    • teaching
    • Terraform
    responsibilities
    • group
      DevSecOps Working Group
      title
      Technical Lead
      description
      Helping GSA systems migrate to the cloud by developing reusable components and processes around logging, monitoring, deployment, operating system hardening, automated testing, etc. This helps systems to incorporate operational best practices, while streamlining their security assessments.
      url
      https://tech.gsa.gov/guides/dev_sec_ops_guide/
    • group
      CIO Liaison
      title
      description
      Work with GSA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer to ensure 18F is getting the support it needs while maintaining compliance. Regularly negotiate with the GSA Security team to find compromise between security, compliance, and operational efficiency.
      url
    • group
      Project Boise
      title
      Project Lead
      description
      Leading 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 can 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 devops 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
      cloud.gov: 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
    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
    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
    Full-stack web development on the site and APIs, as well as building an open source stats reporting framework.
    start_date
    2013-05
    end_date
    2013-08
    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) startup, touched all pieces of the blogging 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
    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
    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
    skills
    • CSS
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • JavaScript
    • HTML
    • jQuery
    • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Sinatra
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.
    start_date
    2016-08
    end_date
    2016-12
  • 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
    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
    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
    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.
    start_date
    2013-02
    end_date
    2013-03
    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 over six thousand members across seven states, occurring up to two to three times per week in NYC alone.
    start_date
    2011-09
    end_date
    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
profiles
artsy
username
aidanfeldman
profile_url
http://artsy.net/aidanfeldman/favorites
facebook
username
aidan.feldman
profile_url
https://facebook.com/aidan.feldman
foursquare
username
aidanfeldman
profile_url
https://foursquare.com/aidanfeldman
github
username
afeld
profile_url
https://github.com/afeld
instagram
username
aidanfeldman
profile_url
http://instagram.com/aidanfeldman
jux
username
aidan
profile_url
http://afeld.me
medium
username
aidanfeldman
profile_url
https://medium.com/@aidanfeldman
meetup
username
8818215
profile_url
http://www.meetup.com/members/8818215/
speakerdeck
username
aidanfeldman
profile_url
https://speakerdeck.com/aidanfeldman
stack_overflow
username
358804
profile_url
http://stackoverflow.com/users/358804/aidan-feldman
twitter
username
aidanfeldman
profile_url
https://twitter.com/aidanfeldman
vimeo
username
aidanfeldman
profile_url
https://vimeo.com/aidanfeldman
youtube
username
alfgames
profile_url
http://www.youtube.com/user/alfgames
projects
  • title
    Empire Node 2015+2016
    description
    Organizer for NYC's Node.js conference.
    url
    http://empirenode.org
  • title
    teachers_pet
    description
    Command line tool to help teachers use GitHub in their classrooms.
    url
    https://github.com/education/teachers_pet
  • title
    git-setup
    description
    Easy Git setup.
    url
    https://github.com/afeld/git-setup
  • title
    Tricle
    description
    Automated metrics reporting via email.
    url
    https://github.com/afeld/tricle
  • title
    Vittle
    description
    A Chrome extension that shows previews of items on food ordering sites.
    url
    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vittle/oijdfokmphhefjgnmjccmknllomobhdg
  • title
    Advanced JavaScript
    description
    Interactive slides, course outline and resources for teaching Advanced JS.
    url
    https://github.com/advanced-js/syllabus
  • title
    Backbone-Nested
    description
    A plugin to make Backbone.js keep track of nested attributes.
    url
    http://afeld.github.io/backbone-nested
  • title
    Coolest Thing All Week
    description
    Mailing list for people to share the coolest thing they've seen in the past seven days.
    url
    https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/coolest-thing-all-week
  • title
    JSONProxy
    description
    Simple proxy and client library for doing cross-domain requests.
    url
    http://jsonp.jit.su
  • title
    Hacker Hours
    description
    Free office hours for programming help, running weekly+ since 09/2011.
    url
    http://hackerhours.org
  • title
    Magickly
    description
    Image manipulation API as a service/gem.
    url
    http://magickly.afeld.me
  • title
    Mongoid-Locker
    description
    Gem for document-level locking in MongoDB.
    url
    https://github.com/afeld/mongoid-locker
  • title
    mustachify.me
    description
    Automatic mustachifying of any image.
    url
    http://mustachify.me
  • title
    Stringer
    description
    Virtual stringed instrument, played with a Kinect. Third place at NYC Music Hackday 2011.
    url
    http://afeld.github.io/stringer
talks
  • 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.thenewdynamic.org/event/2016/08/04/search-for-static-sites-by-aidan-feldman/
  • 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
    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
    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
    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
    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