Aaron Lefkowitz
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Lefkowitz is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, leading teams, and shipping reliable backend systems. He blends deep hands-on engineering—contributions to projects like the authboss authentication library—with pragmatic leadership, having grown engineering organizations and processes at Pulley before joining Stripe. Comfortable across GCP, Kubernetes, and backend architectures, he’s repeatedly driven technical rewrites, improved computation and reporting, and owned security and infra programs. Aaron’s transition from IC to manager was organic and grounded in simplifying complexity, fostering collaboration, and mentoring engineers. He thrives on technically and organizationally hard problems and on working with peers who push him to learn. Based in Vancouver, he pairs a lifelong passion for software and open source with a knack for quickly absorbing new technologies and distilling them into practical solutions.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Thompson Rivers UniversityGrande Prairie Regional College
Github Skills (7)
data-structures10
authentication10
user-authentication10
go10
network-interface10
data-structure10
testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
aarondl/authboss
Jan 2015 - Oct 2022
The boss of http auth.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 5 reviews, 379 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Aaron contributed to the infrastructure and core logic of the authentication system, as evidenced by the addition of a module system, a storer interface, and the foundational code for handling user attributes with different data types. The work involved the creation of structs and interfaces for data persistence, including the ability to bind data to and from structs, which suggests a focus on the underlying architecture and data management. The code changes also introduced testing frameworks for core functionality, establishing the basis for future development and ensuring the reliability of the system.
http-auth
aarondl/sqlboiler-sqlite3
Jun 2018 - Dec 2021
sqlite3 driver for sqlboiler
Contributions:17 commits, 9 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 6 months
driversqlboilersqlite
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