Aaren Stade

Chief Technology Officer, Newsjunkie.net

Aaren Stade is our Lead Engineer and CTO at Newsjunkie.net, working from Oakland, CA. He grew up immersed in the arts, creating short films, VFX, and drawing. His passion for technology building and programming began in middle school, building basic video games and apps. After studying digital media at Oakland School for the Arts, he chose to travel and work post-high school, gaining experience in the field at several startups in San Francisco as a data engineer and web application developer.

Since joining Newsjunkie in 2020, Aaren has shaped the technical direction of our site, currently building a searchable database capturing the market value of news intel through live network graphs. Aaren works on the Engineering team with partner, Simon Landau.

Outside of Newsjunkie, Aaren continuously experiments with AI agents, data science projects to quantity personal metrics, and experimental music visualization software. Among his past projects include developing small digital billboards that allowed users to upload images locally through an app, a project that required him to learn embedded circuit design and firmware development. He also attempted to build video editing software from scratch- while ultimately unsuccessful, provided valuable learning experiences.

In his free time, Aaren enjoys architecture and playing pool.