Aaron Sonin
Core OS Kernel System Performance Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Sonin is a Core OS Kernel System Performance Engineer with 11 years of engineering experience, currently working at Apple to make low-level systems fast and responsive. He has a track record of shipping high-impact kernel improvements—during an intern role he parallelized XNU's stackshot, cutting latency by over an order of magnitude and presenting results to senior leadership. Comfortable across C++, Swift/Objective-C, Qt, and web stacks, he contributes to open-source projects like PrismLauncher where he refactored instance settings and account handling. A UC San Diego bioinformatics graduate with a CS minor, Aaron pairs systems-level performance tuning with practical web and tooling experience from roles ranging from HomeKit and developer tools to running a self-hosted WordPress for a campus publication. Colleagues describe him as someone who genuinely thinks computers are fun and brings that curiosity into robust, cross-functional engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Rock Canyon High School
Github Skills (12)
app-launcher10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
launcher10
application-launcher10
refactor9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
refactoring9
cpp9
uid9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 1 PR in 16 days
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily worked on the instance settings page, adding the functionality to use a default account for each instance of Minecraft. They refactored the instance settings, including account selection, and made corresponding changes to the launch controller to utilize the account. The user also addressed code issues, such as type checks and signal connections, while refactoring the codebase using C++ and Qt.
custom-launcherfabricmcmultimcqtminecraft
byteduck/GLCraft
Dec 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 22 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 4 months
testingto-dovoxelplanningvoxel-game
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