About
LA-Based Back-End Software Developer with Full Stack, iOS App, and Virtual Reality development experience.
Back-End Developer.
Bilingual Latino engineer passionate about making an impact by providing tools that enable people to access new resources and opportunities.
Resume
Sumary
Aidan Blant-Reyes
LA-Based back-end Software Developer with fullstack, iOS App, and Virtual Reality development experience.
Education
B.S. Computer Engineering & Computer Science
2012 - 2016
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Awards
1st Place Windows Mixed Reality Hack
2018
Creating Reality Hackathon, Los Angeles, CA
Professional Experience
Software Engineer
2021 - Present
Google, Los Angeles, CA
Bar ∧ Kitchen Manager
2017-2021
National Bar Staffing, Los Angeles, CA
Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop, Los Angeles, CA
Good Karma Cafe, Los Angeles, CA
- Oversaw bar staff while organizing black-tie functions and corporate events with expansive menus serving over 1000 guests.
- Recruited and trained kitchen and bartending staff.
- Secured the rating of Good Karma Cafe as HappyCow’s #1 Top Rated restaurant for 2018
Private Tutor
2017-2018
Compass Education Group, Los Angeles, CA
- Tutored over 50 high school students for SAT/ACT prep, and Physics, Math, and Chemistry AP courses.
Software Developer
2016-2017
Sysrepublic, Los Angeles, CA
- Modified enhancements and developed new features via C#, SQL, in POS apps handling 100s of millions transactions/day.
Technical Researcher
2014-2016
USC Archaeology Lab, Los Angeles, CA
- Collaborated in specialized tech team utilizing quadcopters and Remotely Operated Submersibles in experimental application of archaeological exploration and mapping. Processed Arduino C\C++ data within ARCGIS Python extensions.
Tech Blog
Aidan Blant Tech Blog
Technical notes, build logs, automation writeups, and small lessons from software projects.
Read the blogUnder the Sunshade
Under the Sunshade
A reflective garden of books, quotes, and small growths.
Personal essays, reading notes, book reviews, and garden-adjacent thoughts about attention, grief, memory, and making room for quieter things.
Visit SunshadeWas it only by dreaming that I could find out what I thought?
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Book Reviews
Photography
A separate gallery space for photographs, visual experiments, and image collections.
Gallery
Portraits, landscapes, and quiet documentary moments framed with a clean, human eye.
Open photography