Aaron Buck
Product Software Engineer at Dropbox
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Buck is a product-focused software engineer at Dropbox with four years of experience building growth-driven, experimentable web products and ML recommendations that have unlocked millions in revenue. A Princeton CS graduate and former intelligence specialist in the US Navy Reserve, he blends disciplined analytical rigor and cross-functional leadership to ship measurable product outcomes with Design and Data Science partners. His internships at Google, Microsoft, Cockroach Labs, and Five Rings reflect breadth across observability, distributed systems, and trading infrastructure, and his open-source work includes a student-driven food4u project. Known for rapid iteration and pragmatic ML deployments, he has a track record of translating complex data into production features and company-recognized hacks. He mentors peers and students (COS333 TA) and is passionate about investing in Africa’s entrepreneurial ecosystems, a thread that ties his technical career to broader social impact.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Warrior-Scholar Project Science Technology Engineering & Math Program, Warrior-Scholar Project Science Technology Engineering & Math Program at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWarrior-Scholar Project Humanities and Humanistic Studies Program, Warrior-Scholar Project Humanities and Humanistic Studies Program at Harvard UniversityEconomics and Psychology, Economics and Psychology at Saddleback CollegeB.S.Eng. Computer Science, B.S.Eng. Computer Science at Princeton University
Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
go10
cockroachdb10
sql10
sql-database10
database10
high-availability9
cloud-native9
distributed-database9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
iAaronBuck/cockroach
Jan 2023 - Apr 2023
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
distributed-sqloltpdistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-database
iAaronBuck/Final426Starter
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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