aaron brewbaker
Site Reliability Engineer at Intelligent Retail Lab by Walmart
site reliability engineer intelligent retail lab walmart
experienced engineer broad set skill , passion technology , penchant pragmatic research innovation . doe n't work , one care fast doe n't work .
Intelligent Retail Lab by Walmart
https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligentretaillab
Asset protection, AI Ops
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
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Site Reliability Engineer
Walmart
https://www.linkedin.com/company/walmart
DevOps Tech Lead for an unannounced acquisition
• Design and implement observability stack Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Fluentd; Declaratively deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service via Terraform & Helmfiles. Aggregate data from Azure, AWS, Zabbix, edge compute, and BI tools to form a unified observability layer. 
• Promote/enforce production readiness 
• Facilitate best practices, cooperation, and increased team velocity by providing technical direction and cultural leadership  
• Plan and drive migration from AWS to Azure 
• Provide examples, support, and documentation for on-boarding teams to Azure DevOps CICD, Docker, and observability platform. 
• Provision & support Azure resources for dev tooling 
• Guide teams in forming and enforcing SDLC processes 
• Act as liaison between ICs and upper-management representing developers best interests while ensuring business alignment
Hoboken, NJ
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DevOps Tech Lead
Walmart
https://www.linkedin.com/company/walmart
Supported Jet.com's pricing team on various TechOps initiatives:
• Lead .NET core migration strategy
• Lead migration to internal CI/CD platform
• Designed and improved internal testing and configuration frameworks
• Lead improvements to SDLC and release velocity
Hoboken, New Jersey
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Senior Software Engineer (Jet.com)
Walmart
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Interim role as engineering lead and principal research scientist for a venture project in the gaming space.
• Scouted potential M&A targets and carried out technical audits
• Designed prototype and specced development hardware
• Worked closely with third party vendors to create and refine cost estimation models.
• Provided executive summaries of patents and academic research.
• Refined organizational and capex models for tech side of product
Hoboken, NJ; San Bruno, CA
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Digital Gaming Engineering Lead (Walmart eCommerce)
Walmart
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GPU Merchant Selection
• R&D role focused on using AI/ML, genetic algorithms, and GPUs to expand capabilities of Jet's smart merchant selection engine
• Published a popular blog post that reached the number one spot on HackerNews

Containerization Initiative
• Significant contributor to early PoC for company wide containerization initiative

Merchant API
• Extended back-end of Jet.com merchant portal.
Hoboken, New Jersey
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Software Engineer III (Jet.com)
InCube Group
https://www.linkedin.com/company/incube-group
• Remote position for a Swiss-based startup which specialized in high performance and GPU computing technologies, especially those used in the quantitative finance industry.
• Extension, optimization, and testing of a F#-CUDA compiler
• Developed GPU algorithms for back testing algorithmic trading strategies.
• Presented on F#-CUDA compiler at NVIDIA's Global Technology Conference in March of 2014
Remote
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Software Developer, Compiler Team
InCube Group
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Remote
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Software Development Intern
Appalachian State University
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Boone, NC
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Graduate Teaching Assistant
Appalachian State University
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Boone, NC
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AppalAIR Research Assistant - Lead Developer
Appalachian State University
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Boone, NC
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ASU Dark Sky Observatory Research Assistant - Software & Circuitry Engineer
Master of Science (MSc)
Engineering Physics
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Appalachian State University
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Master of Science (MSc)
Computer Science
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Appalachian State University
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Bachelor of Science (BSc)
Minors:  Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Philosophy
Psychology
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Appalachian State University
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Havertown, PA
Luke Troyon
Instrument specialist  at Haverford College
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Boone, NC
J.R. Archer
Mechanical Engineer at Harris Corporation
https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaac-bryan-49446768
Hickory, NC
Isaac Bryan
Research Scientist at Hoffman Materials
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Destin, FL
Daniel Charles
Software Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-grier-design
Pittsburgh, PA
Ken Grier
Senior Product Designer at Xometry
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Boone, NC
Michael Yang
System Analyst at Eastman Chemical Company
https://www.linkedin.com/in/iannewsome
Winston-Salem, NC
Ian Newsome
Ph.D. Candidate at Wake Forest University
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Clinton, SC
Joshua Hoffbauer
Lecturer In Physics at Presbyterian College
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chastityholt
Wilkesboro, NC
Chastity Holt
Senior SCADA Product Engineer at ASCO Power Technologies
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Charlotte, NC
Michael Miller
Project Engineer at CITI-LLC
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Cedar City, UT
Will Beuttell
Application Engineer at EKO Instruments USA
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Detroit Metropolitan Area
Daniel Hatcher
Associate Data Scientist
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Madison, WI
Andy Shive
Technical Solutions Engineer
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Greater Burlington Area
Reed Gurchiek
Postdoc, Stanford, Bioengineering (NMBL)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/silver-frank
Raleigh, NC
Silver Frank
Hardware/Embedded Software Engineer at Logos Technologies LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-childers
Arlington, VA
Matthew Childers
Spacecraft Engineering Analyst at The Aerospace Corporation
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yash-d-mehta
Raleigh, NC
Yash Mehta
Graduate Research Assistant at North Carolina State University
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-mabe-452237182
Los Angeles, CA
Christopher Mabe
BS, Physics at Appalachian State University
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        I had the pleasure of working with Aaron at Jet.com for over three years. He's an extremely intelligent developer that has a passion for innovation. He's not afraid to tackle tough problems, spanning GPU development, distributed workflow implementations, to CI/CD process design and enhancements. He has deep knowledge of .Net ecosystem, Azure Cloud development, and is proficient in functional programming (F#).  I think he would be a great addition to any team, both professionally and personally. Chase Croft
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Aaron was my engineering lead for a venture project at Walmart. Aaron was the closest thing we had to an in house expert for a very niche space. He was given ill defined, vague instruction and excelled. Aaron asked meaningful and thought provoking questions that led to large product impact. We worked side by side on designing an architecture from the ground up that met the customer needs. Aaron can eloquently explain low level details and high level technical vision alike which makes him a pleasure to work with from a business / product perspective. On top of it all, he has high EQ which will carry him far in his career as an engineering leader. I'd look forward to more opportunities to work with Aaron.
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Evolving Computers - AI, Chaos, Evolutionary & Generic Algorithms
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Computational Physics
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Functional Programming
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Sigma Pi Sigma | The Physics Honor Society
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AI for Business Leaders
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GPGPU / GPU Users
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