Aaron Birkland
Senior Manager at solo.io
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Birkland is a seasoned software leader with 10+ years of experience building data-focused, cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams at institutions from Cornell and Johns Hopkins to Solo.io. He pairs deep technical expertise in search, data integration, preservation, and microservice architectures with strong operational instincts—having driven Kubernetes pilots, CI/CD adoption, and cost-conscious architecture reviews for multi-institution deployments. As a hands-on technical lead and manager, he mentors teams of a dozen, guides complex technical decisions, and clarifies ambiguous requirements while engaging vendors and open-source communities. His background includes designing policy engines and scalable knowledge-graph and repository solutions (including work that brought an in-house submission system into the Eclipse ecosystem), reflecting an unusual blend of research infrastructure and production-grade engineering.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Bachelor's degree Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at Cornell University
Github Skills (141)
api-management10
security10
consul10
istio10
microservices10
service-mesh10
pass-data10
fault-injection10
proxies10
golang10
kubernetes10
many-to-many10
nomad10
development-environment10
fedora10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
birkland/fcrepo4
May 2016 - Mar 2020
Fedora 4
Contributions:62 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years 10 months
capistranofedoracoreos
DataConservancy/dcs-packaging-osf
Jan 2017 - Nov 2019
Open Science Framework packaging model, client, and utilities.
Contributions:5 PRs, 1 push, 4 comments in 2 years 10 months
pythonsciencecondapackagingopen-science
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