Aaron Penne
Director Of Data Engineering
United States
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Top SchoolAaron Penne is a data engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building high-impact teams and platforms that scale—driving over $50M in platform revenue and growing teams from two to 14 engineers. He specializes in data platforms, AI/ML infrastructure, and generative systems, having transformed an AWS data warehouse into a self-serve analytics platform serving 5,000+ customers and slashed ETL time from 24 hours to two. At Art Blocks he led engineering through hypergrowth, improving reliability 13x, cutting $720K/year in costs, and launching a B2B licensing product that became a meaningful revenue stream. His background as an electrical engineer and early work on creative technology inform a rare mix of rigorous systems thinking and creative coding—he’s a published, exhibited artist and winner of the Lumen Prize. Aaron’s leadership focus is developing engineers into leaders via structured mentorship, clear career paths, and blameless feedback, evidenced by multiple promotions among his reports. He is open to connections around engineering leadership, data architecture, AI/ML systems, and generative technology.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoB.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at San Diego State University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (54)
data-visualizations10
visualization10
python10
data-science10
weather10
python-mode10
noaa10
data-visualization10
generative-art10
readable10
matlab9
digital-signal-processing9
ftp9
historical9
discord-bot9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
proteanblank/generative_art
Aug 2018 - Aug 2021
A collection of my generative artwork, mostly with Processing in Python mode
Contributions:317 commits in 3 years
python-mode
kursor/generative_art
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
A collection of my generative artwork, mostly with Processing in Python mode
Contributions:131 commits in 2 months
python-mode
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