Aaron Nech
Sr. Principal Engineer at Atlassian
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Nech is a Sr. Principal Engineer with 12+ years of experience building large-scale consumer products and hardware-integrated experiences, now supporting a globally distributed 700+ engineer org at Atlassian. Previously he led multi-team engineering efforts at Meta, driving the launch of Ray-Ban Stories/Ray‑Ban Meta smart glasses and shaping Facebook Marketplace’s billion-scale ranking and indexing systems. With an academic background in AI, graphics, and computer vision (CVPR-published work on million-scale face recognition), he blends rigorous research with pragmatic systems design. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of product, infrastructure, and cross-company partnerships—having coordinated with Luxottica for consumer hardware—and has a track record of scaling teams and systems to hundreds of millions of users.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lakewood High School
Github Skills (25)
face8
chainer7
cudnn6
face-recognition6
face-detection6
cuda5
gpu5
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
python5
caffe4
cupy4
facenet4
deep-neural-networks3
neural-network3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
karan/navi
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:96 commits in 1 day
rdrapeau/neural-net-nes
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:86 commits, 67 pushes in 1 month
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