# Aaron Staley > Software Engineer Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/aaronstaley ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Sierra Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, CA Enabling you to get support from geniuses in a data center. ### Software Engineer @ Airtable Jan 2020 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA Enterprise Area Technical Lead that drove initiatives to support large-scale Airtable deployments. Designed, architected, and implemented the new unified enterprise model, user groups, and various API functionalities. Consulted on a wide variety of other systems (security, admin console, new homescreen, sharing). Additionally: * Owned key data residency project that involved sharding a single metadata database * Archetected new platform to support our external integrations (sync, workflows, LLM agent use cases). ### Software Engineer @ Neeva Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California, United States Early engineer. Worked on personal document search indexing backend. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Dropbox Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA Organized Home (2018): Improved the team files experience; helped set tech strategy around permissions, sharing, and data lifecycle within this area of 4 teams and 30 engineers. Shared Folder Infrastructure/Sharing Platform (2016-2017): Product infrastructure that made Dropbox's sharing dreams possible. Owned high-throughput permissions and file hierarchy infrastructure. Tech lead and occasional manager. Dropbox Business (2015): https://www.dropbox.com/business - Helped teams work better together. Developed the Dropbox team folder product, while also tech leading/onboarding a remote (Tel Aviv based) team that developed API surfaces for external partners. API (2014): https://www.dropbox.com/developers - Supported our external developers and partners. Led Android development on Dropbox "open with" integrations. ### Co-Founder @ PiCloud, Inc. Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA Democratized compute power. PiCloud was a high performance cloud-based job processing Platform as a Service. Among the first "serverless" computing / Functions-as-a-Service offerings. Acquired by Dropbox. ### Teaching Assistant @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 Teaching assistant for "CS61C: Machine Structures". Course coverage includes C programming, assembly programming, and synchronous digital design. Led weekly hour-long discussion section and two hour long lab, tutored students, and designed projects Taught 3 semesters of CS61C and one semester of "CS164: Programming Languages and Compilers". ### Intern @ National Instruments Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 Worked on LabVIEW's FPGA Target Team. Optimized I/O performance. ### Engineering Intern @ Riverbed Technology Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 Wrote software to automate development testing of Steelhead WAN optimizer's handling of the CIFS protocol. Also authored additional testing software and wireshark protocol dissectors. ### SDE Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 Worked on the Security Token Service product in the Federated Identity Group. ### Game Mod Programmer @ Team Vortex Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 Developed Deathball (http://www.deathball.net), a modification for Unreal Tournament 2003/2004. Modification won first place in the first phase of the Make Something Unreal contest. Developed Operation Na Pali, a highly acclaimed partial conversion for Unreal Tournament. ### QA Intern @ National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jan 2003 – Jan 2003 Worked at NASA AMES research center as part of the NASA SHARP program. QA Engineer on MAPGEN project - a mission planning application used on the Mars Rover mission ## Education ### Masters in Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aaron-staley-ba42534 --- Source: https://flows.cv/aaronstaley JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/aaronstaley/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11