Summary
Thaddeus Aid is an award-winning technology leader and reliability engineer with nearly three decades of technical experience and over a decade in focused SRE roles, now serving as CTO and Vice President of a stealth startup while founding a second storytelling venture. He has driven cost-saving, production-grade observability and alerting platforms (saving roughly $500K/year at Nuro), automated ML regression checks, and led SRE training and incident response efforts across companies like Nuro, LinkedIn, and Labelbox. Comfortable spanning hands-on engineering, teaching, and public service, he has also lectured at San Jose State and Oxford and served as an Early Education Commissioner for San José. His background blends large-scale DNS and ISP systems, HPC bioinformatics research, and full-stack/internal tools development, revealing a rare mix of infrastructure depth and applied research. Based in Eugene, Oregon, he brings an academic rigor from doctoral work at Oxford to pragmatic, cost-conscious platform leadership.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Statistics at University of Oxford
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Reading