Aubron Wood
Building the primitives, guardrails, memory, and knowledge that agents need to write consistent frontend interfaces.
- aubron.io
- aubron+io@daemon.group
- github.com/Aubron
- linkedin.com/in/aubron
- Seattle, WA
Summary
Manager and engineer of frontend platforms. Currently leading Polaris at Shopify, reshaping its component library, documentation surfaces, and codegen tooling into the substrate where agents and humans cowork on the same UI. Previously led design systems at Google Cloud and frontend platform at Indeed; cofounded a B2B SaaS that was later acquired.
Experience
Reshaping Polaris into the substrate where agents and humans cowork on the Shopify admin.
Led the frontend platform team behind the interfaces that help people find and land new jobs.
Led the team that updated Cloud Console — millions of lines of Angular — to the latest Google Material, long considered infeasible without a rewrite.
Unblocked a year-stalled GWT-to-React migration, then ran the Frontend, DevX, and Identity teams as Technical Product Owner.
Cofounded a canvas-based social graphics tool. Took it from MVP to acquisition; clients ranged from high schools to the Dallas Mavericks.
Proficiencies
- Frontend platforms · Design systems · Web components
- AI / agent platforms · MCP and CLI tooling for agents
- React · TypeScript · GraphQL · Tailwind · Radix
- Angular · Next.js · MDX · Vite · Webpack module federation
- Engineering management · Cross-functional program leadership
- Accessibility · Performance · Visual regression at scale