Aaron Brooks
Lead Principal Engineer ML & Data Platform Architecture
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Brooks is a principal-level engineering leader with 12 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, production ML and analytics platforms across startups and enterprise environments. Based in Austin, he specializes in cloud-native, event-driven architectures—medallion and Kappa patterns—delivering high-throughput ingestion, feature pipelines, and Text-to-SQL/ML enablement for global operations. He has led platform builds for Chick-fil-A and hardened performance-critical data systems at Apple and Imply, bringing deep expertise in Apache Druid, PySpark, Apache Iceberg, Kafka/Kinesis, and AWS serverless tooling. Aaron pairs hands-on coding in Go and Python with platform strategy, observability, and cost optimization, often embedding with product teams to translate ML needs into production-ready data models. An understated strength is his track record of migrating legacy systems to cloud-native microservices and enabling self-service analytics across international fleets.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Kansas State University
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (5)
rabrooks/dotfiles
Nov 2014 - Dec 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 4 pushes in 3 years
rabrooks/server-dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 years
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