- 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
- 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