Aaron Jorbin

Aaron Jorbin Resume

Aaron Jorbin is an experienced product engineering leader in the online media space. He has formed and lead teams working on both new and ageless properties. Aaron has been described as "An Engineer's Engineering Manager" and someone that grows and develops people. He is a sought out public speaker having spoken at over 50 events and delivered multiple keynotes. His community involvement includes 11 years of working on WordPress and 15 years with the education non-profit American Model United Nations.

Work

Penske Media Corporation

since 05.2018Sr. Director of Editorial Technology
  • Hire multiple engineers and lead training and on boarding.
  • Establish and improve relationships with vendors.
  • Rollout Engineering Career Ladder to organization (20+ engineers).
  • Oversee multiple teams that include direct and matrix reports.
  • Deliver multiple corporate top-ten projects each year.
  • Enact first corporate hackathon.
  • Improve corporate open-source contributions.

Some Spider

09.2016 - 05.2018Director of Engineering
  • Direct product engineering by an internal team & contractors.
  • Relaunch flagship property, increasing time on site 16% YoY.
  • Run meetings for stakeholder teams.
  • Model revenue & costs around video distribution strategies.
  • Manage the launch of new brands cafe.com and thedad.com.

Happytables

12.2015 - 07.2016CTO
  • Lead development on new platform.
  • Launch initial product in under 3 months.
  • Organize product planning retreat for twelve stakeholders.

Conde Nast

since 12.2013Technical Architect
  • Architect system & performance improvements for six publications.
  • Migrate infrastructure for six publications onto AWS.
  • Launch three publications on to WordPress.

Privia Health

07.2012 - 09.2013Sr. Interactivity Engineer
  • Lead front-end development, user experience design, & user interaction design.
  • Initiate weekly metrics reports & investigations.
  • Shift design to a more agile & browser-first paradigm.

AddThis

10.2010 - 07.2012Web Developer
  • Build a culture, plan, & system to simplify release cycle .
  • Develop code loaded over ninety-billion times per month.
  • Institute accessibility as an organizational priority.

Community

WordPress

since 02.2010
  • Serve as minor release lead & deputy release lead on a major version
  • Commit code starting with version 4.1.
  • Contribute to over 20 major versions.
  • Organize a local meetup group with over one-thousand members for three years.
  • Plan WordCamp NYC, WordCamp Publishers, & WordCamp US.
  • Mentor two Google Summer of Code students.

Open Source

since 09.2007

American Model United Nations

since 2006
  • Serve on the Board of Directors starting in 2017
  • Write topic guides on current events for four years.
  • Direct a thirty person educational simulation of the current Security Council.
  • Train a nine person department.
  • Oversee accuracy for an educational conference.
  • Teach a realistic international crisis simulation.
  • Fulfill technology needs as a part of a five person technology team

WhiteHouse.gov

01.2021
  • Forge block based editor for "The People's House
  • Design and implement a custom user experience for content creators in collaboration with two agencies and other volunteers
  • Win a Webby.

Education

Northern Michigan University

08.2001 - 08.2006
  • Graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Economics & Political Science.
  • Formulate an educational enrichment program.
  • Manage a million dollar budget for campus events.
  • Establish an improv comedy troupe.