Aaron Blohowiak
Stay-at-Home Dad
Burlingame, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Blohowiak is a seasoned distributed systems engineer with 17 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available infrastructure, most recently shaping traffic steering and demand engineering at Netflix. He blends deep hands-on expertise in backend systems (Go, Java, Python, Ruby) with strategic thinking—translating business context into engineering objectives and fostering cross-team alignment. His work spans chaos engineering, regional evacuation and failover systems, and performance-driven architectures that operated at Netflix scale. Aaron is also an experienced mentor and builder of developer culture, having led teams through migrations to service-oriented architectures and production-grade observability. Outside software he applies his craft to making sculptural solid-wood furniture, revealing a creative, detail-oriented mindset that informs both engineering and design. He has contributed to notable open-source tooling, including enhancements to a Haml-to-JavaScript compiler, demonstrating curiosity across languages and platforms.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Psychology, B.S., Psychology at Drexel University
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Github Skills (14)
compiler10
javascript10
haml10
compile-time10
compilation10
compile10
testing9
objective-c6
xcode6
html6
xml6
ios6
iphone6
regex6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
creationix/haml-js
May 2011 - May 2016
Haml ported to server-side Javascript. This is a traditional server-side templating language. Tested with node-js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Aaron focused on enhancing the functionality of a Haml-to-JavaScript transpiler. Their contributions included adding new features, such as support for raw JavaScript and HTML comments, and implementing whitespace control features for improved tag formatting. They also addressed existing issues related to interpolation, escaping, and added support for custom escapers. The user was involved in refactoring and bug fixes to improve the performance of the Haml compiler.
hamlnodejsserver-sideserver-side-javascripttemplating
aaronblohowiak/restartr
Sep 2010 - Jul 2011
Contributions:15 commits in 10 months
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