Aaron Colwell
CTE Teacher, Engineering Robotics at Rainier Beach High School
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Colwell is a seasoned software engineer and educator with 15 years of experience building media, security, and VR infrastructure at Google and leading engineering teams across startups and research organizations. He helped standardize and implement the Media Source Extensions API—work that earned a Technical Emmy—and later architected Chrome security and YouTube VR video systems, demonstrating deep expertise in media pipelines and secure system design. After a period of hands-on making—building 3D printers, custom electronics, and mentoring students—he now teaches CTE Engineering and coaches FIRST Tech Challenge robotics in Seattle, blending hardware, CAD, and software instruction. Comfortable moving between low-level codecs, large-scale services, and classroom mentorship, he brings a rare combination of production-grade systems thinking and practical maker skills to both industry and education.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of WashingtonBS, Computer Engineering : Hardware Specialization, BS, Computer Engineering : Hardware Specialization at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (115)
rtsp10
image-processing10
testing10
firefox-addon10
hevc10
spatial10
adobe10
web-development10
streaming10
web-platform10
javascript10
safari10
matroska10
chromium10
browser10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
acolwell/spatial-media
Jul 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:19 pushes, 23 branches in 5 years 1 month
acolwell/conan-center-index
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Contributions:39 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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