Aaron Riekenberg
Principal Software Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Riekenberg is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of professional experience and a long track record of delivering resilient, high-performance systems at Target and previously Lockheed Martin. He blends deep systems and backend expertise—from C/C++ and Solaris/AIX in avionics and air-traffic projects to modern JVM-based microservices using Java 8, Spring Boot, RxJava, Kafka and Cassandra. Known as a performance enthusiast and inventor, he focuses on pragmatic architecture and delivery while mentoring teams and driving operational excellence. He contributes to open-source networking work as a backend developer on quic-go, helping implement HTTP/3 behaviors in a widely used Go QUIC library. Based in Minneapolis, he holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and brings a veteran systems mindset to cloud-native and distributed systems problems. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex requirements into testable, production-ready solutions.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of MinnesotaBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Kansas State University
Github Skills (5)
golang10
http10
protocols10
go10
testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
quic-go/quic-go
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
A QUIC implementation in pure Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
Contributions summary:Aaron contributed to the `quic-go/quic-go` repository, focusing on the HTTP/3 implementation. Their work involved modifying the server and example code to allow for custom port values in the Alt-Svc header, which was later reverted. They also exported the `http3.Server.Port` and added a test case for setting the port. Furthermore, they updated the codebase to use "HTTP/3.0" consistently.
golangquicquic-serverhttp3protocol
aaronriekenberg/rust-parallel
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Fast command line app in rust/tokio to run commands in parallel. Similar interface to GNU parallel or xargs plus useful features. Listed in Awesome Rust utilities.
Contributions:37 releases, 207 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
command-lineparallelrust
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