Aidan Feldman

Aidan Feldman is a civic technologist by day, dancer by night. Aidan has worked as a Technology Director, Data Engineer, Innovation Specialist, and DevOps Consultant for various teams in government across the country, including 18F, NYC Planning Labs, the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI), the US Census Bureau, and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). Before that, he was a developer on the education team at GitHub, and has also helped improve the technology and practices of a number of startups and nonprofits.

Aidan has been helping adults learn to code for over a decade, currently at SIPA and NYU, and in the past at Cornell Tech, City University of New York (CUNY), and the New School. He founded Hacker Hours, a meetup group which provided free office hours for thousands of people learning software engineering.

Aidan is passionate about enabling others, through building tools, teaching, and open source. When not on a bicycle, Aidan has another life as a professional modern dancer.