Aaron Gooch
Senior Systems Engineer at Narf Industries
South Lake Tahoe, California, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Gooch is a senior systems engineer and engineering leader with 20+ years of experience designing and productionizing backend and distributed systems for security-sensitive, high-reliability environments. He’s led architecture and delivery for DARPA and DoD programs, transforming research prototypes into event-driven, data-intensive platforms that cut analysis time by 20× and detect coordinated malicious activity in large-scale GitHub event streams. A former CTO and decorated U.S. Air Force combat veteran, he blends operational discipline and calm decision-making with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, FastAPI, Elasticsearch, and large-scale ingestion pipelines. Aaron mentors distributed teams, guides technical tradeoffs in mission-critical contexts, and has a track record of turning complex analytics and container-security research into scalable, auditable production systems. Based in South Lake Tahoe, he enjoys tackling correctness- and reliability-first problems where thoughtful engineering tradeoffs matter.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (91)
mesosphere7
cluster-manager6
sanity5
dcos5
packaging5
kafka-cluster5
discovery5
scala5
kafka5
letsencrypt4
rpm4
ksqldb4
cron4
darwin4
chronos4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
frogfinance/SignalCraft
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
An automated trading system using FastApi, Backtesting, and Alpaca API for data and live trading.
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
eodgooch/express-zipkin
Apr 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 4 months
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