Aaron Turon
Research Engineering Manager at Mozilla
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Turon is a software engineer in Portland with 14 years of experience, currently building Compute@Edge at Fastly. He specializes in Rust systems engineering—async runtimes, concurrency primitives, and language tooling—and has contributed to foundational projects like tokio, futures-rs, crossbeam, rand, and chalk. His work spans core refactors, stream combinators and event-loop integration, epoch reclamation, and framed I/O redesigns, demonstrating deep expertise in low-level runtime and concurrency design. He also contributes to developer-facing work, authoring content and UI fixes for the Rust and Tokio websites and adding WebAssembly and networking examples. Notably, Aaron blends forward-facing feature development with long-term API stabilization and adaptation to Rust stdlib changes, an uncommon mix of systems-level insight and maintenance discipline.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at The University of Chicago
Github Skills (42)
asynchronous10
algorithm10
algorithms10
website-development10
futures10
async10
atomics10
css10
command-line-interface10
io10
networking10
data-structure10
mio10
implement10
standard-library10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tokio-rs/website
Dec 2016 - Sep 2017
Website for the Tokio project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 13 PRs, 18 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the website's frontend and documentation, implementing UI improvements and fixing display issues. They updated the CSS styles for better visual consistency and corrected layout elements. The user also worked on adding examples, fixing links, and updating the content structure of the documentation and blog sections. Their work involved modifying HTML, CSS, and some example code files.
rust-lang/futures-rs
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
Zero-cost asynchronous programming in Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 66 PRs, 47 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Aaron's primary contribution focuses on enhancing the core functionalities of the Rust futures library. They implemented the `for_each` combinator to process streams, and added the `skip_while` combinator and `filter_map` to provide stream filtering and transformation capabilities. Furthermore, they developed code related to the basic integration with the mio event loop, and synchronized with the event loop to acquire tokens and acquire tokens, further indicating core library development.
asynchronouszerorustasync-foundationsasynchronous-programming
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