Summary
Aaron Crow is an engineering manager based in Los Angeles currently leading Developer Experience at Chainlink Labs, where his team makes it easier to create, test, deploy, operate, and maintain Chainlink’s stack on new blockchains. He is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling full-stack teams, having served as VP of Engineering and Director of Engineering at high-growth companies. At Factual he grew engineering leadership across dozens of engineers, championed Clojure adoption, founded the Los Angeles Clojure user group, and co-created Drake, an open-source data workflow tool with 1,300+ stars. He pairs deep distributed-systems and reliability expertise—from early back-end work to architectures that supported millions in revenue—with hands-on recruiting and mentoring. Known for turning complex cross-team commitments into delivered outcomes, he focuses on durable systems and developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles