Summary
Aaron Steele is a seasoned engineering leader based in Berkeley with 15 years building data infrastructure, APIs, and machine learning platforms across academia, nonprofits, and industry. He has led ML infrastructure and data teams at Stripe, scaled production model workflows, and directed data-driven initiatives at World Resources Institute that won the UN Big Data Climate Challenge. Comfortable toggling between hands-on engineering and operations, he now drives engineering and operations at Textile, bringing product-focused systems thinking to developer-facing infrastructure. His background in geospatial and biodiversity research at UC Berkeley gives him a distinct edge in applying ML to real-world environmental problems.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley