Summary
Aaron Pollack is a software engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling backend systems for high-traffic consumer platforms. He currently leads engineering at Meta after driving ads ranking infrastructure and personalization systems at Coupang using Java, Solr, Redis, gRPC and Spark on AWS. Previously he led API and search efforts at Napster, improving Redis stability, CI practices, and scaling public APIs to tens of millions of daily requests. Known for hands-on technical leadership and mentoring, he blends systems-level engineering with product collaboration to deliver reliable, measurable services. Aaron’s background—from operations support at startups to an MS in Computer Science—gives him a pragmatic, data-driven approach to performance and resiliency.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science, Minor in History, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science, Minor in History at University of Washington
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Seattle University