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Aaron Held, Director of Engineering - BarCamp Philly | November 8, 2008 @ The University of the Arts | Philadelphia, PA

Aaron Held, Director of Engineering


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Who are you and what do you do?
Hi all, I am Aaron Held and I work as a Director of Engineering for Comcast Interactive Media (CIM). What I do is write emails so my team can write code…. Sarcasm aside I’ve found a group of highly talented individuals here and look forward to coming to work every day to help them.

Why are you attending BarCamp Philly?
I’m attending because I grew jealous seeing the passion and excitement about this within my team. People like Arpit, Livia, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Matt Schaffer and Maurice Gaston have been dominating the espresso room with chatter about this for weeks. The other day they were talking and I was wearing a shirt from the last open source initiative I was involved in, and I realized that shirt was pretty old. I’m hoping that this event will rekindle my personal excitement about participating in the community and getting projects out for the fun of it.

If you were to lead a session, what would it be about?
I’d be happy to talk about the complexities of managing a site as large as http://www.comcast.net. (40MM page views/day lots of partner connections, multiple CDNs, datacenters, video platform etc…) We recently migrated our entire portal into a new data center with an entirely new codebase and that was an interesting adventure. I’m also a proponent of mentoring and think that would be an interesting topic for this crowd. It is a challenge to balance innovation against the need for stability without crushing the joys of our industry.

Tell us one random fact about yourself.
I’ve hacked rabbits with assembly code.

Where can we find you?
http://www.aaronheld.com
Twitter and AIM: @IamAaronHeld
http://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronheld
I’m usually at 1701 JFK, a trinity in BellaVista, Holland PA or travelling between them

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    Liby
    Posted November 26, 2008 at 11:20 am | Permalink

    Where would you go to college or university if I wanted to be a director of engineering?

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