Aaron Brooks

Head of Engineering Operations

Supabase

Mar 2026 - Current (6 months)

Principal Software Engineer

Equinix

Jan 2024 - Feb 2026 (2 years 2 months)

At Equinix I work on the Core Platform Services team enabling and improving engineering performance and tools across the broader organization. Engineering Activities: - Prototyped and evaluated local-LLM RAG-based AI documentation assistant to aid configuration and debugging of complex in-house tool systems - Created in-house agentic AI "process expert" tooling to support CoE and ORR document creation and review, enabling consistent document production, in-loop feedback, and lightweight process iteration - Created large-scale, high-speed query and insight system ingesting and parsing commits 6x faster than git-fast-export. Used for investigating complex multi-system software, configurations, and user/team activity

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Co-founder, co-organizer

Southern New Hampshire Clojure Group

Feb 2014 - Sep 2023 (9 years 8 months)

Organized and planned activities for monthly Clojure meetup group, providing both structured talk segments, more organic discussions and collaborative coding sessions. Created inclusive environment and interactions allowing people of many different backgrounds and skill levels from "never-programmed" to "works-with-Rich-Hickey" to learn, share and teach in a safe and fun environment.

Principal Software Engineer

Viasat

Apr 2013 - Nov 2023 (10 years 8 months)

Worked across all functional software areas (dataplane, control plane, management plane, business back-office, software development tooling & test) providing technical, organizational and cultural leadership both at the team and company wide levels. In my technical work I architected, implemented and operated a broad range of products, tools and projects. Themes across these projects include using high leverage tools and approaches such as functional programming, rules engines, generative property-based testing and a specification-as-implementation approach I developed and refined called live-spec. Highlighted projects include: - Development of the core ISP API, servicing internal and external / VNO parties - Architected and built a mas

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Principal Software Engineer

LonoCloud

Oct 2011 - Apr 2013 (1 year 7 months)

Designed and implemented multi-cloud PaaS+ cloud architecture in Clojure. Features included distributed consistency (dynamic multi-Paxos), functions as a service, cloud agnostic provisioning and management, multi-region fail-over. Also oversaw team infrastructure, remote pairing and collaboration tools and deterministic versioning tooling (lein-voom).

Senior Developer

Sentry Data Systems

Jun 2009 - Sep 2011 (2 years 4 months)

Built robust, scalable, HIPAA compliant IaaS platform for the healthcare cloud. Oversaw hardware selection, capacity planning, hardware and boot provisioning, hardware lifecycle, instance virtualization, software defined networking, operator and end user APIs and UI design and implementation.

Senior Software Engineer

SiCortex Inc

Mar 2005 - Jun 2009 (4 years 4 months)

Involved in all aspects of the unique, Linux based, SiCortex family of high performance (HPC) / supercomputing systems [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiCortex] including hardware, simulation, software, systems, platform integration, performance and support. Highlighted activities include: - In house chip functional emulator development - Wrote initial boot code (u-boot) and Linux kernel port and platform support - Wrote robust, multi-CPU barrier and lock primitives for early boot - Performed PCIe root-complex verification - Tun/Tap based DMA fabric virtualization for hardware-free development and test environments - Designed virtualized ethernet over DMA fabric - Developed base platform power management and bring-up control - Wrote,

Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard

Sep 2002 - Dec 2004 (2 years 4 months)

Worked on Fibre Channel driver supporting Emulex Fibre Channel PCI/PCI-X devices, debugging customer issues, supporting new hardware, working on scale and performance of Fibre Channel IO. Rewrote in-house Tru64 crash kernel debug utility, unifying four existing, partial APIs into one, dynamic API supporting all use-cases. This enabled many teams to write new, much more capable debugging tools within the crash utility. Participated in the design, implementation, testing and documentation of PRES (Parallel Remote Execution Subsystem) delivering cluster-wide fork+exec functionality on HPUX.

Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard

Jun 2001 - Sep 2002 (1 year 4 months)

At Compaq (pre HP acquisition) worked in the BOSIO (Base OS and IO) team on SCSI CAM (Common Access Method) team, maintaining, debugging and documenting the Tru64 IO stack.

Computing Systems Resource Manager

TAYLOR UNIVERSITY

Aug 1998 - May 2001 (2 years 10 months)

Computer Systems Specialist

Phoenix Contact Inc

Jan 1996 - Jan 1998 (2 years 1 month)

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