Aaron Bell
Engineering Manager, Code Authoring at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Bell is an experienced engineering leader with 14 years of software industry experience and a two-decade career arc that spans startup ventures, financial services, and major platform engineering at Meta. Currently an Engineering Manager for Code Authoring in New York, he has led cross-functional teams across Meta AI, client foundations, and developer tooling, translating complex infrastructure and ML product challenges into scalable delivery. Prior roles as a distinguished engineer and cloud development lead at JPMorgan Chase and as a product/engineering manager at Mesosphere show his fluency in platform, PaaS, and distributed systems. He combines hands-on technical judgment with product sensibility—having run his own firm Alba Labs and earlier consultancies—so he balances shipping with strategic architecture. A UK-trained computer scientist, Aaron brings a pragmatic, operations-aware perspective to managing developer experiences and tooling at scale. Notably, his career progression reflects a pattern of stepping into critical foundation teams to stabilize and industrialize core services.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at Robert Gordon University
Stackoverflow
5,124reputation
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11answers
3questions
virtual-machine
top-1%
virtualbox
top-1%
vagrant
top-1%
Github Skills (154)
threejs10
minecraft10
ubuntu10
realms10
javascript10
drawing10
vagrant10
webgl10
kubernetes10
c6410
go10
physics10
raycasting10
package10
docker10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
air/minecraft-tools
Feb 2017 - Nov 2020
Tools for server and Realms admins
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
realmsserver
air/shaders
May 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:59 commits in 3 months
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