Aaron McCurry

Aaron is the Chief Scientist at Fortitude Technologies. He has been developing software for the last 18 years ranging from web applications to search engines to distributed SQL engines. He began his career working for Virginia Tech as a programmer while he was still a student. In the last few years his focus has been on large scale distributed systems, though he still tinkers with web applications on occasion.

Aaron holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech. He created the Apache Blur project and spends a lot of his free time developing open source software. Aaron enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter. During the summer, you can find Aaron at the pool either cheering his daughter on at her swim meets or just beating the heat. The rest of the year, Aaron moonlights as a contractor moving from one home project to the next or as a potential Top Gear host doing his best to maintain his speed, but itching to see what his cars can really do.