Summary
Aaron Kosel is a Member of Technical Staff with 12 years of engineering experience blending Site Reliability Engineering and backend development to build resilient, distributed systems. He has led infrastructure and SRE efforts at companies including Zapier, Compound, and Dropbox, and now contributes to platform reliability at Replit. Aaron specializes in event-driven architectures and cloud-native tooling—Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Prometheus, and Databricks—delivering scalable pipelines and observability at production scale. His background in Human-Computer Interaction gives him a user-centered perspective on developer experience and operational tooling. Known for moving between hands-on software work and technical leadership, he accelerates teams’ ability to ship reliable systems while reducing operational toil. Based in Ann Arbor, he combines rigorous engineering with an economist’s analytical mindset to optimize system and team performance.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Human-Computer Interaction, Master of Science (MS), Human-Computer Interaction at University of Michigan
Bachelors, Economics; Mathematics, Bachelors, Economics; Mathematics at Mercer University
English, Spanish