Aaron Tubbs
Engineering Manager (L7) at Google
San Bruno, California, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Tubbs is an experienced engineering manager and former staff engineer with 11+ years in large-scale systems, currently leading 49 engineers at Google on YouTube’s API, playback, and compliance infrastructure. He combines deep technical chops in Python, C++, storage, caching, and large-scale migrations with a strong track record of building and scaling teams, mentoring managers, and driving multi-year platform modernizations. Notable achievements include leading one of the largest Python 3 migrations and architecting a five-year migration to a modern serving platform that supported billions of users. Based in San Bruno, he blends hands-on systems design with people leadership, focusing on operational reliability, internationalization, and regulatory-ready APIs. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and growth-oriented—adept at turning high-risk platform transitions into durable, team-scalable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
minidump6
algorithm6
vim6
data-structures6
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readonly5
recipe4
pypy4
python4
cocktail3
pypi3
high-performance3
javascript2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
atubbs/hochar
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 9 days
recipe-bookrecipejavascriptnonsensecocktail
atubbs/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 5 months
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