Aaron Szafer
Sr. Program Manager at Mastercard
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Szafer is a senior program manager with nearly three decades of technical experience and nine years in program-level roles, currently leading identity verification and fraud prevention efforts at Mastercard. He blends hands-on software engineering roots—from optimizing Exchange server scalability—to product and program leadership at Microsoft Azure Identity Services, incubating emerging tech like blockchain and IoT. Comfortable with ambiguity and cross-functional coordination, he has a track record of driving projects from research-grade scientific products at the Allen Institute to large-scale cloud services, improving cost, availability, and capacity planning along the way. A PhD physicist who moved from academic research to high-scale systems, he brings rigorous analytical instincts to product decisions and a pragmatic focus on delivery. Notably, his background spans both deep systems optimization and customer-facing product design, enabling him to translate complex technical tradeoffs into operational improvements.
9 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Physics and Math cum laude, B.Sc. Physics and Math cum laude at The Hebrew University of JerusalemPh.D. Physics, Ph.D. Physics at Yale UniversityM.Sc. Physics, M.Sc. Physics at Purdue University
Github Skills (38)
tencent-cloud10
dsl9
cloud-computing9
terraform9
gcp9
aws9
serverless9
azure9
management9
compliance9
yaml8
kubernetes8
cloud-security7
docker6
cicd6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aaron-schnieder/software-interview-questions
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:26 PRs, 26 pushes, 30 branches in 12 days
aaron-schnieder/rust_cribbage_core
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
core cribbage service implemented in rust
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 17 days
rustcribbage
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