Aaron Alpar
Principal Software Engineer Consultant at Independent
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Alpar is a principal-level software engineer and consultant with 20+ years designing and shipping high-availability distributed systems, from early work on Oak/Java to cloud-native Kubernetes storage platforms. He led architecture at Kasten (acquired by Veeam), filed multiple patents on cloud-native storage, and has built global PKI and certificate management systems at Apple with 99.99% uptime. Deeply proficient in Go, C, Rust, and cloud platforms, he combines hands-on implementation—fault-injection frameworks, cross-cloud object migration transforms, and custom AI training pipelines—with strategic IP and reliability engineering. His early innovations include one of the first ORMs and patented gene-expression storage systems, showing a long pattern of turning novel research into production products. Based in the Bay Area and active in the Kubernetes community as a KubeCon speaker and contributor, he now consults on cloud-native architecture, AI/ML model development, and reliability engineering for companies building serious infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computational Science, Computational Science at University of Chicago
Github Skills (33)
prototyping6
heap6
payment-processing6
sdk6
responsive6
adyen5
oauth5
braintree5
authentication5
css5
paypal5
javascript5
hex4
go-client4
oauth2-client4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aalpar/deheap
Apr 2019 - Sep 2021
Doubly ended heap
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 2 years 5 months
rustheap
orestl/hxx
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
golang hex dumps made easy
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
golanghexdumpsgolang-server
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