A software engineer, game creator, and CS student @ UT Austin 🤘
About Me
Hey there! I'm Aiden, a sophomore at The University of Texas at Austin majoring in Computer Science. I'm passionate about creating impactful software and saving lives through firefighting/paramedicine. When I'm not coding, I'm playing football (won intramurals Fall 2024!), going to the gym, or learning about firefighting and EMS.
Alongside my career in Computer Science, I plan to be a firefighter/paramedic. Ever since I was a kid, I've always had a strong desire to join the fire service and help people in their worst moments. Having both a career in the CS field while serving as a firefighter paramedic is my lifelong dream! I've actually made a game about first responding on Roblox, scroll down for more info!
Experience
BetterCampus
Founding Engineer
// May 2025 - Present
• Migrated 2M-user EdTech platform to Cloudflare Workers across 300+ edge locations, cutting API cold starts from 120ms to <5ms (96%) and infrastructure costs 85% ($2→$0.30 per M requests)
• Architected horizontally-sharded calendar sync on Cloudflare Durable Objects, hashing 2M+ users across 4–16 stateless shards with fire-and-forget RPC, DB-level serialization, and exponential-backoff retry — <20ms per-event latency
• Shipped real-time collaborative editing on Yjs/Slate.js CRDTs with binary state in Postgres and a trigger-driven delta-log compactor (500-op threshold), preserving full operational replay across 2M+ users
• Shipped real-time transcription streaming MediaRecorder audio over WebSocket to Durable Objects, multiplexing a 5s draft stream against a 60s refined-persistence stream with per-user token quotas — sub-500ms first-caption latency
• Lead an agile team of 9 developers, coordinating sprints, reviewing PRs, and ensuring smooth feature rollouts
Longhorn Developers
Project Lead Developer
// January 2025 - Present
• Led the development of Help Me Bevo, a browser extension project, aimed to boost student motivation
• Designed and implemented customizable features, such as volume, assignment types, and platforms
• Achieved over ~2,200 unique users and 80,000+ uses in a single school year
• Integrated user feedback to refine features, improve functionality, and optimize the user experience
Popular Roblox Game
Owner & Programmer
// January 2022 - Present
• Built and scaled a Roblox experience to 650K+ visits and 620K+ hours of playtime, ranking in the top 1% for session time and payer conversion rate against industry benchmarks while sustaining a 5-star average across thousands of player ratings
• Designed and deployed an anti-exploit system that detected and blocked malicious script injection in real time, reducing exploit reports by 40% and safeguarding player accounts and in-game economy at scale
• Programmed full-stack gameplay features, security modules, and UI/UX; built a companion web app with real-time data sync for external player management, moderation tooling, and staff workflows
Skills
Languages
Frameworks & Libraries
Cloud & Infrastructure
Tools
Projects
Roblox Game
Played by hundreds of thousands of players & recognized as one of the most realistic Roblox roleplay games with over 250,000 hours of playtime. Programmed with Luau, Roblox's version of Lua, on both frontend and backend. We are in the 99th percentile on the platform for average session time.
Austin FD Live
Real-time Austin Fire Department incidents with unit tracking using Broadcastify and OpenAI APIs. I always wondered where different fire apparatuses were going around the city, so I made this small passion project to see calls and the assigned units! Very cool to combine my passion in CS with my passion for firefighting.
Contact Me
You can contact me by using the link buttons in the bottom navigation bar! You can also use my emails below to contact me:
