Aaron Lilla

Led front-end development of TableCaptain, a React and Electron poker room management platform adopted in 30+ rooms across the U.S. and Asia. Video walkthroughs of the Floor Editor, Table Manager, Waitlist, and in-venue TV display at aaronlilla.github.io.

• Architected the real-time WebSocket sync layer - 450+ concurrent displays (15+ per venue across 30+ venues) with sub-second latency - and scaled TableCaptain V2 to the #1 poker room management system by adoption in 2024 (per company assessment).
• Solo-designed and shipped the TableCaptain OTR Kiosk, a self-service camera-QR check-in app (React 19, real-time WebSocket) deployed on-premises at several large Las Vegas casino poker rooms including the Venetian, through 57 commits and 15+ versioned releases backed by a ~300-test automated suite.
• Engineered core features end-to-end (floor editor, table manager, waitlist, employee manager, in-venue display HUD with optimistic UI) integrated with a .NET backend over WebSockets.
• Automated the Electron auto-update and CI/CD pipeline (bi-weekly releases, sub-10-minute hotfixes, zero major downtime across six years) and led the TypeScript and Redux migration, mentoring engineers and translating Figma mockups into reusable design-system components.

Technologies: React, Redux, Electron, WebSockets, .NET (integration), Webpack, Vite, Vitest, CI/CD, Figma

Indie game studio: shipped Spire of Ash (a commercial roguelite ARPG) end-to-end on Steam in 2022-2024, and building Nolve (a buildcraft ARPG, in development since 2025) on a deterministic C#/.NET engine with an AI-agent development pipeline.

• Nolve (2025-present): built a TypeScript + React design studio as the single source of truth - a deterministic combat simulator with content authoring for 100 characters, 500 skills, and 2,000+ items - with a Monte Carlo parity harness holding the C#/.NET engine within 0.5% of the TypeScript reference across 1,000 seeded runs, driven by a multi-agent Claude Code build pipeline (combat runtime, balance validator, data exporter, mode implementor, cross-mode validator) with an MCP-driven dashboard.
• Spire of Ash (2022-2024): self-published a commercial roguelite ARPG end-to-end on Steam (~74,000 lines of TypeScript, 600+ tests) across 20+ releases (Steamworks, electron-builder, staged auto-update, Sentry, Chinese localization), with a Three.js/Pixi.js 3D client, a Supabase cloud backend with real-time leaderboards, and procedural systems (a 442-affix generator, 988 collectible cards) gated by Monte Carlo balance audits.

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Node.js, C#, .NET, Godot, Electron, Three.js, Pixi.js, Redux, Supabase, Steamworks, MCP, Claude Code, Vite, Vitest, Playwright

Concurrent senior front-end and AI/LLM development contract work with two vetted-expert AI-training marketplaces that route engineers into RLHF pipelines for frontier AI labs (Mercor's clients include OpenAI and Anthropic) - building production React applications from LLM-processed prompts, training models to flag UX and code defects, and evaluating AI-generated front-end code for correctness and production readiness.

• Mercor Intelligence (Mar-Nov 2025, 8-month contract): built production-quality React applications from LLM-processed prompts as a Senior Front-End Engineer, structuring code as canonical teaching examples so models could learn and replicate optimal component architecture, and trained models to automatically flag critical UX defects.
• DataAnnotation (2024-present): serve as a senior front-end / AI-LLM developer on its software-engineering review track, building and evaluating React and Node code for correctness and production-readiness (logic errors, race conditions, inefficient implementations) and producing structured feedback used in RLHF model fine-tuning.

Technologies: React, TypeScript, Node.js, LLM Training & Evaluation, RLHF, Prompt Engineering

Built a single-page React app delivering real-time commercial real estate data for 5,000+ properties.

• Cut quote retrieval time by 50% via Redux-driven caching, request deduplication, and search-path query optimization.
• Shipped a 20-component reusable UI library (~40% fewer front-end bugs in six months) and drove load time under 1.2s into green Core Web Vitals.

Technologies: React, Redux, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3

Operations Manager for a licensed cannabis processing facility (2014-2016), overseeing CO2 extraction operations and seed-to-sale compliance systems between web development roles.

• Administered the Metrc seed-to-sale compliance system (plant tagging, inventory tracking, packaging workflows) to meet state regulatory requirements.
• Built and tuned CO2 critical extraction processes and packaging-line SOPs, supervising staff and troubleshooting production and compliance-software issues under regulatory deadlines.

Technologies: Metrc, Systems Administration, Regulatory Compliance, Operations Management

First professional web development and design role, building marketing websites and graphic design assets for local and regional clients.

• Designed and built marketing websites and landing pages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and produced print and digital graphic design assets - branding, ads, marketing collateral - for regional clients.

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Graphic Design, Adobe Creative Suite