AJ Slater
Creator
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorAJ Slater is a creator and seasoned software engineer with 16 years building scalable distributed systems and infrastructure, now focused on self-hosted open source projects out of Oakland. He has led engineering teams at high-growth companies like Cruise and Sidecar and served as a senior architect at Docker, bringing deep operational and DevOps experience to product architecture. AJ combines hands-on back-end development—demonstrated by contributions to the Mylar3 comic downloader and a self-hosted comic server—with leadership in productionizing complex systems. After a recent sabbatical he returned to shipping open source software that blends practical tooling with thoughtful user-facing features, reflecting a preference for resilient, self-managed infrastructure. An unconventional detail: his ongoing work ties hobbyist interests (comic delivery tooling) to robust distributed design patterns typically seen in enterprise systems.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (9)
python10
tor10
apidoc9
api9
configuration-management8
whoosh6
jpeg6
optimization6
django-templates6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
mylar3/mylar3
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
The python3 version of the automated Comic Book downloader (cbr/cbz) for use with various download clients.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 29 PRs, 13 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:AJ contributed to bug fixes and feature implementations within the Mylar3 comic book downloader project. Their work included addressing spelling errors and fixing a "turnitoff" error in the interface, indicating involvement in both the core logic and UI interactions. The user also implemented a Torznab tester and made modifications related to torrent clients, demonstrating familiarity with download mechanisms. Furthermore, changes in library synchronization and configuration files hint at a role in managing application settings and data handling.
python
ajslater/picopt
Jan 2010 - Dec 2022
A multi format lossless image optimizer that uses external tools
Contributions:11 releases, 1 review, 943 commits in 13 years 1 month
external-toolslossless
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