1awards: []
2certifications: []
3contact:
4  email: [email protected]
5  location: Salt Lake City, Utah, US
6  phone: null
7  socials:
8    - icon: github
9      name: GitHub
10      url: https://github.com/bokendell
11    - icon: linkedin
12      name: LinkedIn
13      url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronkendell/
14education:
15  - company: University of Utah
16    current: false
17    description: >-
18      3.9 GPA
19
20      Business and Fintech Minor
21
22      Utah Flagship Scholarship, Business Scholars Scholarship
23
24      Relevant Coursework: Databases, Algorithms & Data Structures, Web Programming, Computer
25      Systems
26    durationYears: 3.3
27    endDate: '2024-05-01T00:00:00.000Z'
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30    location: Salt Lake City, UT
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33    startDate: '2021-01-01T00:00:00.000Z'
34    title: Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
35    type: education
36experience:
37  - company: BambooHR
38    current: true
39    description: >-
40      Backend-leaning full-stack engineer on the Community team, which owns BambooHR's
41      employee-engagement surface — a social feed and a recognition economy built on top of it.
42
43      Co-owned a production LLM agent that reads HR system data to suggest targeted, personal peer
44      recognitions — from design through general availability (June 2026) and its reliability and
45      cost work since.
46
47      Built an eval harness with parameterized runs to measure which prompt structures, models and
48      run-gating rules actually worked, then cut cost per run by ~90% against our own first
49      implementation while holding acceptance of surfaced suggestions above 50%.
50
51      Built an in-house document processor that replaced a third-party document service and retired
52      the vendor agreement — asynchronous conversion, status-aware user feedback, and a backfill
53      path migrating existing data off the vendor.
54
55      Led transition of the team's local development environment from a Virtual Machine to Docker,
56      contributing the core services and setup capability behind the move and cutting setup and
57      maintenance time for new engineers.
58    durationYears: 2.5
59    endDate: null
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61    link: null
62    location: Lehi, UT (Hybrid)
63    roles:
64      - current: false
65        endDate: '2024-08-01T00:00:00.000Z'
66        startDate: '2024-05-01T00:00:00.000Z'
67        title: Software Engineering Intern
68      - current: false
69        endDate: '2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z'
70        startDate: '2024-08-01T00:00:00.000Z'
71        title: Software Developer (Part-time)
72      - current: false
73        endDate: '2025-11-01T00:00:00.000Z'
74        startDate: '2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z'
75        title: Software Developer (Full-time)
76      - current: false
77        endDate: '2026-08-01T00:00:00.000Z'
78        startDate: '2025-11-01T00:00:00.000Z'
79        title: Software Engineer I
80      - current: true
81        endDate: null
82        startDate: '2026-08-01T00:00:00.000Z'
83        title: Software Engineer II
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85    startDate: '2024-05-01T00:00:00.000Z'
86    title: Software Engineer II
87    type: employment
88generatedAt: '2026-10-12T11:43:14.314Z'
89headline: Software Engineer II, BambooHR
90languages: []
91name: Aaron Kendell
92projects:
93  - company: null
94    current: true
95    description: >-
96      Built an open-source relay that lets cloud coding agents drive a real iOS simulator over MCP:
97      screenshots, the element tree, taps, logs, Maestro flows and visual diffs.
98
99      Both ends dial out through a Cloudflare Worker and Durable Object, so sandboxed agents with no
100      inbound network can lease a device; 34 tools behind one typed oRPC contract.
101    durationYears: 0.1
102    endDate: null
103    id: 35dd3206-bf03-4931-9563-b9c442d3eb8f
104    link: https://github.com/simrig-dev/simrig
105    location: null
106    roles: []
107    skills: []
108    startDate: '2026-09-01T00:00:00.000Z'
109    title: SimRig
110    type: project
111  - company: null
112    current: true
113    description: >-
114      Built a voice-first golf scoring app: a Mastra caddy agent with 33 tools turns a spoken score
115      into confirmed, saved results across up to 12 game types running at once.
116
117      Designed the realtime path: one transaction recalculates every game, then Redis and a Postgres
118      outbox to Inngest fan the event out to a dedicated SSE server, and each phone refetches only
119      what changed.
120    durationYears: 1.6
121    endDate: null
122    id: 2d61d3aa-0de9-4c55-bcd8-915f4883c14e
123    link: https://bagman.io
124    location: null
125    roles: []
126    skills: []
127    startDate: '2025-03-01T00:00:00.000Z'
128    title: Bagman
129    type: project
130skills:
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132    - name: Mastra
133      yearsOfExperience: 1.6
134    - name: OpenRouter
135      yearsOfExperience: 1.6
136    - name: Claude Code
137      yearsOfExperience: 0.2
138    - name: Codex
139      yearsOfExperience: 0.2
140    - name: Cursor
141      yearsOfExperience: 0.2
142    - name: Temporal
143      yearsOfExperience: 0.2
144    - name: MCP
145      yearsOfExperience: 0.1
146  cloudPlatforms:
147    - name: Fly
148      yearsOfExperience: 1.6
149    - name: Inngest
150      yearsOfExperience: 1.6
151    - name: Neon
152      yearsOfExperience: 1.6
153    - name: Cloudflare
154      yearsOfExperience: 0.1
155  programmingLanguages:
156    - name: PHP
157      yearsOfExperience: 2.5
158    - name: Python
159      yearsOfExperience: 2.5
160    - name: TypeScript
161      yearsOfExperience: 2.5
162    - name: JavaScript
163      yearsOfExperience: 0.3
164  technologies:
165    - name: MySQL
166      yearsOfExperience: 2.5
167    - name: React
168      yearsOfExperience: 2.5
169    - name: Drizzle
170      yearsOfExperience: 1.6
171    - name: Expo
172      yearsOfExperience: 1.6
173    - name: Hono
174      yearsOfExperience: 1.6
175    - name: oRPC
176      yearsOfExperience: 1.6
177    - name: React Native
178      yearsOfExperience: 1.6
179    - name: Redis
180      yearsOfExperience: 1.6
181summary: >-
182  Software Engineer II on BambooHR's Community team, building social products used across an SMB
183  customer base — an employee feed and social graph, and a peer-recognition rewards economy on top
184  of it. Co-owned a production LLM agent from design through GA and then through its reliability and
185  cost work. Full-stack across Python, TypeScript/React and PHP, with hands-on depth in agent
186  systems: prompt design, model selection, run gating and cost-per-run.
187volunteer:
188  - company: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
189    current: false
190    description: >-
191      Managed and coordinated activities, living quarters, and security for groups of 20 to 30 young
192      adults.
193    durationYears: 2
194    endDate: '2019-08-31T00:00:00.000Z'
195    id: f5a4a5dc-82e7-4e10-b6f2-0302f2c7ae16
196    link: null
197    location: São Paulo, Brazil
198    roles: []
199    skills: []
200    startDate: '2017-09-01T00:00:00.000Z'
201    title: Volunteer Church Representative - São Paulo, Brazil
202    type: volunteer