Aaron Van Meerten
Principal Engineer at 8x8
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Van Meerten is a Principal Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience specializing in DevOps and backend systems for real-time communication, currently focused on productionizing and operating Jitsi at 8x8. He combines deep infrastructure and XMPP/prosody expertise with practical engineering—having implemented subdomain support, file-based recording, token validation, and Jibri queue improvements across high-profile open-source projects like jitsi-meet and jibri. Previously at Atlassian and in embedded systems at Vendwatch, he modernized architectures with queues, caching, and sharding to scale legacy platforms. Known for pragmatic debugging and operational enhancements (for example, creating comprehensive dump archives for Jibri), he bridges developer workflows and production reliability. His background in computational physics informs a methodical, data-driven approach to solving distributed-systems challenges.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computational Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computational Physics at DePaul University
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Github Skills (25)
xmpp10
docker10
prosody10
jitsi-meet10
configuration-management10
bash10
token-authetication10
dockers10
lua10
rest-api10
devops10
video-conferencing9
debug9
javascript9
debugging9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jitsi/jibri
Jun 2016 - May 2022
Jitsi BRoadcasting Infrastructure
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:27 reviews, 35 commits, 59 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Aaron contributed to several key areas of the Jibri project. They implemented subdomain support and file-based recording features, enhancing the application's flexibility. They also modified code for autoplaying audio. Further, they were involved in dumping Jibri for debug purposes by creating an archive to gather all logs and dumps.
broadcastingjitsiinfrastructureterraform
jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet
Feb 2019 - May 2022
Jitsi Meet on Docker
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:125 reviews, 32 commits, 243 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on configuring and modifying configuration files related to the `prosody` component within the Dockerized Jitsi Meet environment. Their contributions include enabling rate limits, enabling visitor mode, and enhancing XMPP configuration by introducing new parameters and functionalities. Furthermore, the user was involved in fixing BOSH and subdomain-related configurations, along with fixing shutdown scripts. These changes indicate a focus on infrastructure and system configuration.
docker-imagejitsivideo-conferencingdockerdocker-compose
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