Aidan Blant

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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.

Under 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 Sunshade

Was it only by dreaming that I could find out what I thought?

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

Book Reviews

A Grief Observed Cat's Cradle The White Album The Poisonwood Bible

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