Aaron Feldman is a software engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building high-performance back-end systems, currently at Meta. A Caltech CS and Mathematics graduate, he has deep expertise in storage and databases evidenced by substantive contributions to RocksDB — adding cache management functions, fixing memory leaks, and enabling multithreaded backup/restore. He translates low-level systems work into reliable production features, and has iterated on benchmarking tools to give teams finer control over caching behavior. Past internships at Google and research at JPL reflect a strong foundation in rigorous engineering and large-scale systems. Notably, his profile photo at Point Reyes hints at a preference for precision over methodology dogma — practical engineering, not waterfall endorsements.
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes in 27 days
Contributions summary:Aaron contributed significantly to the RocksDB project by adding new functionalities and improving existing ones. They implemented a `GetPinnedUsage()` function for cache management and resolved memory leaks within the cache testing framework. The user also introduced multithreaded backup and restore capabilities to the backup engine, including adding a new field for controlling background operations. Furthermore, the user added a flag to the db_bench tool to control caching of index and filter blocks.
Contributions:25 PRs, 123 pushes, 31 branches in 2 months
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