Aaron Shea

(Sometimes I go by "Digit!")

Talks/Public Speaking

Nerves <3 Flutter (CodeBEAM America 2025)

• Talk centered around engineering a Flutter UI on Nerves embedded devices using Elixir.
• https://youtu.be/ARSHzzGdB4w

Game Programming Patterns in Elixir? (ElixirConf 2021)

• A talk about an experimental coding adventure where I built an ECS based engine in Elixir! Includes a fun demo!
• https://youtu.be/gQb58bqwDOc

Distributed Authz in Elixir
(CodeBEAM America 2021)

• Another code adventure where I use Macaroons to demonstrate distributed authorization in a cloud service.
• https://youtu.be/LE_QEZGoagg

Experience

SmartRent, Inc February 2021 - Present

Senior Firmware Engineer II

• Building firmware for user facing ZWave based IoT device hubs.
• Lead a user-facing interface effort for an embedded touchscreen hub. Flutter based.
• Developing Elixir/Nerves based embedded software for IoT/Smart Home systems.
• Working with BuildRoot, Embedded Linux, and Linux driver development.

Synopsys Inc. July 2019 - February 2021

Senior Engineer II
Formally Tinfoil Security Inc. - Acquired by Synopsys

• Developing API and Web application vulnerability scanners.
• Created internal OpenAPI2/3 HAR and Postman parser library entirely in Elixir.
• Designed cloud scanner architecture using custom Kubernetes controllers.

Geomagical Labs Inc. June 2018 - July 2019

Software Engineer (Applications and Tools)
Geomagical Labs - Acquired by IKEA (Ingka Group)

• Developed custom software tools for 3D applications and computer vision technology.
• Designed machine learning, auto-scaling, cloud pipeline. (Kubernetes)
• Produced internal tooling for scientific CV research.
• Cloud AI Platform Engineering (Google Cloud)

Digital Surgeons Jan. 2014 - Jan. 2018

Software Engineer

• Worked with multiple clients, such as LEGO in Denmark to develop interactive web application.

Open Source Projects

Burrito

• An effort to enable shipping Erlang and Elixir applications as single, dependency-less cross-platform binaries.
• Built a cross-platform tool-chain that allows you to target any platform from any host when building binaries.
• Currently used by NextLS to distribute zero-dependency binaries!
• https://github.com/burrito-elixir/burrito

Nerves + Flutter

• Created initially as an internal tool @ SmartRent, includes Elixir libraries, Dart libraries, and build tools, to help deploy Flutter apps to Nerves devices.
• https://github.com/nerves-flutter/

BLUI

• Integrated Chromium Embedded Framework into Unreal Engine 4.
• Cross-platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
• Awarded an Unreal Engine Developer Grant.

Industry Projects

Litwick, Synopsys Inc. (SIG)

• Wrote an OpenAPI v2, v3, HAR, and Postman file parser.
• Used internally to pre-process API specs for scanning.
• Can convert API documents to different formats.

Wormwood, Tinfoil Security

• Open source Elixir library to aid in testing GraphQL absinthe applications.
• Published on the company's Github page, and on Hex, the official Elixir package repository.

Manaframe, NullBrush Lab Ltd.

• Custom C++ plugin for Toon Boom Harmony.
• Exports full-length videos without degrading color quality.
• Worked with experienced animators' feedback to create easy to use interface.

General Experience/Other Stuff

• Python
• C#
• C/C++
• Node.js/Javascript
• Additional Experience: Flutter/Dart, Erlang, Zig, Haxe
• Education: BS in Computer Science from University of Hartford