# Aaron Read

> Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aaronread

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Atlassian
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Streaming and messaging infrastructure at Atlassian.

- Collaborated on proposal for a migration platform to replace a legacy platform that was unable to satisfy throughput and usability requirements. Helped design and prototype the system.
- Built tooling to provide managed Kafka infrastructure for the migration platform and other streaming services at Atlassian. Started the work as a solo effort, then formed a team to take the system to production. 
- Adopted a Flink service built to support an observability use case and made it generally available as a platform. This platform is now used in production to support uses cases in security, datalake ingestion, observability, and user facing features.

### Staff Software Engineer II @ Domino Data Lab
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
As early employee at Domino, I led multiple teams working on everything from frontend features to platform efforts.

- Wrote a Kubernetes volume manager that maintains a cache of pre-staged volumes for faster startup times with configurable retention policy.
- Rearchitected system that allows users to view their workload logs in realtime, replacing a solution that caused ongoing complaints from customers.
- Reduced CPU utilization across the system by 33% replacing polling with a messaging.
- Led teams to build model hosting, feature store, git UI, and dataset products.
- Led teams to speed up launch time for interactive notebooks.

### Principal Software Engineer @ RockYou
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Led team building a data lake supporting game producers.

- Designed data warehouse built from data from 21 games with varying event schemas.
- Wrote event logging libraries in multiple language to support server, web, and mobile.
- Regularized build tooling, job scheduling, and rollback.

### Senior Software Engineer II @ if(we)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015
- Tech lead for the Payments team.
- Reorganized existing payments code into a unified framework.
- Designed and implemented a PCI compliant credit card processing service.
- Added new payment providers including PayPal, SponsorPay, RadiumOne, Amazon, and Boku.
- Implemented security measures to reduce fraud including 2FA, rules engine, and fraud model.

### Senior Software Engineer @ The Walt Disney Company
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
- Bootstrapped new game effort and built a team to build and launch.
- Worked with operations team to provision infrastructure and load test new game.
- Redesigned content management system to enable self-service by game designers.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Untangle, Inc.
Jan 2003 – Jan 2009
As the first hire, I wrote some of the first lines of code for a product that is still being sold.

- Designed application server for product, allowing purchase and dynamic loading of new modules from an online storefront.
- Designed framework for processing application layer network protocols. Built web filtering, virus and spyware blockers on this framework.


## Education
### BS in Computer Science
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

### UC Santa Barbara


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amread
- GitHub: https://github.com/amread

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Last updated: 2026-04-12