Summary
Aaron Withrow is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years building and scaling high-performing software and QA organizations, currently directing teams at Ansible by Red Hat from San Jose. He has a strong technical foundation in switching/routing, telecom access networks, and software test tooling, and a proven track record of translating high-level business objectives into measurable delivery across distributed and offshore teams. Aaron excels at process design and continuous improvement—repeatedly rewriting workflows, standing up offshore contract teams to reduce costs, and integrating them into engineering pipelines. His background spans hands-on release and test engineering roles at Google Fiber, Cisco, Calix, and Occom/Eucalyptus, giving him rare cross-functional fluency between product, operations, and go-to-market programs. Known for pragmatic leadership, he pairs systems-level thinking with an emphasis on hiring, mentorship, and operational rigor to accelerate time-to-market.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Biological Sciences, Biological Sciences at UC Santa Barbara