About

Aaron Read is a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer with over 20 years of relevant experience in the technology industry. He is currently working at Atlassian in the same role, where he is responsible for leading software development projects and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products. Prior to his current role, Aaron worked as a Staff Software Engineer II at Domino Data Lab, where he played a crucial role in the development of the company's flagship product. He was responsible for leading the formation of multiple teams, onboarding new engineers, and designing an event-based microservices architecture to improve scalability and team independence. He also developed a Kubernetes volume manager that maintained a cache of pre-staged volumes for faster startup times, as well as a system that allowed users to view their workload logs in real-time using Fluentd, Redis, and S3. Before joining Domino Data Lab, Aaron worked as a Principal Software Engineer at RockYou, where he was a member of the Analytics team. He was responsible for transitioning from JSON to Avro for HDFS ingestion, performing Hadoop upgrades, and designing a data warehouse built from data from 21 games with varying event schemas. He also wrote event logging libraries in Java, Objective-C, and Python, and contributed to the Ruby and PHP libraries. Aaron's educational background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from California State Polytechnic University and coursework at the University of California. He has a wide range of technical skills, including expertise in Kubernetes, Python, Redis, Pandas, microservices, integration, UI, web, Hadoop, HDFS, Apache Airflow, data warehouse, PHP, Elastic Search, Jenkins, and Scala. Overall, Aaron is a talented and experienced software engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software products. He is a valuable asset to any team and is always looking for new challenges to tackle.