Summary
Aaron Mangum is a Principal Engineer specializing in distributed computing and data engineering with 11 years of experience building large-scale data platforms and developer tooling in San Francisco. He currently architects Hadoop-driven systems for a blockchain intelligence company after leading MLOps, data engineering, and CTO roles across healthcare, e-commerce, and finance. His background uniquely spans hands-on machine learning production, founding startups, and even prior work as an antitrust lawyer fluent in Japanese, which sharpens his ability to translate complex legal and business requirements into robust technical designs. Known for pragmatic tooling and clever automation, he has a history of building data pipelines, internal developer systems, and experimental analytics that move research into production.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Economics, Japanese, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Economics, Japanese at The George Washington University
JD, JD at Syracuse University College of Law
JD, Japanese Law, JD, Japanese Law at Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
Associate's degree, Japanese Studies, Associate's degree, Japanese Studies at Kansai University
Data Science Fellowship, Data Science Fellowship at Metis
English, Japanese