Aaron Brown
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure at GitHub
City of Schenectady, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Brown is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in infrastructure with 15+ years building and operating large-scale Linux systems, databases, and cloud-native platforms. Currently running Kubernetes at GitHub, he combines deep systems expertise (MySQL/Postgres/MongoDB/Riak/ElasticSearch) with strong automation skills in Puppet/Chef/Ansible and a pragmatic IaC mindset. He has led distributed engineering and DBA teams, delivered dramatic availability and performance wins (e.g., ZooKeeper-coordinated MySQL failover reducing downtime from 30 minutes to 1), and built high-throughput metrics and deployment services. Comfortable across languages from shell and Ruby to Go and C, he prefers idempotent, testable operations and has repeatedly designed recovery and scaling strategies for mission-critical services. Based in Schenectady, NY, he brings a rare combination of hands-on troubleshooting, team leadership, and production-grade architectural thinking borne of both startup and large-scale platform experience.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music with an Outside Field in Computer Science, Bachelor of Music with an Outside Field in Computer Science at Ithaca College
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Github Skills (161)
controller10
scheduling10
schema10
mesos10
api10
json10
kubernetes10
schema-validation10
go10
docker10
kubernetes-monitoring10
plugin10
kubernetes-cluster9
golang9
aws-ecr9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aaronbbrown/mysampler
Oct 2010 - Apr 2014
Contributions:34 commits in 3 years 6 months
csvstatisticsmysqlrubygraphite
ideeli/rstatsd
Nov 2011 - Jan 2013
Contributions:20 commits, 7 issues in 1 year 2 months
golangregular-expressionsdaemonlog-fileslogging
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