Aaron Russo
Lead Systems Engineer at Pixar Animation Studios
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Russo is a Lead Systems Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating Linux-first infrastructure for large institutions and media studios, currently leading systems at Pixar in San Francisco. He excels at automating repetitive work and prefers solving complex problems from a text editor, turning manual processes into maintainable, scripted workflows. His background spans configuration management, monitoring, storage and networking across academia and enterprise, with leadership experience running managed Linux services at UC Berkeley. An active back-end contributor to open-source tooling, he improved the popular slacker Slack bot framework by modernizing SocketMode integration and enhancing error handling and reply customization. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he blends operational rigor with developer ergonomics to keep production systems reliable while advocating for automation that elevates the team.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelors of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
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Github Skills (7)
bot-framework10
bots10
go10
slack-api10
chatbot10
googlebot10
concurrency9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
shomali11/slacker
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
Slack Bot Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 49 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on enhancing the `slacker` library, a Slack bot framework. Their contributions include exporting key functions for error reporting and reply customization, refactoring the codebase to utilize SocketMode for improved Slack API interactions, and updating example code and documentation. The user also introduced features for bot interaction mode. These changes showcase a focus on improving the framework's core functionalities and adaptability.
slack-botslackslackbotslackapislack-api
arusso/arusso.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 46 pushes, 8 branches in 7 years 3 months
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