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Aaron Burk

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Senior Director of Engineering at NerdWallet
📍 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Aaron is a Senior Director of Engineering at NerdWallet with 16 years of experience building customer-facing products and architecting platforms at scale. He specializes in designing AI systems and providing architectural direction. Colleagues describe him as having great technical, people, and leadership skills.

He has authored technical articles on topics like Redis Bitmaps and fault tolerance in distributed systems.

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
Senior Director of Engineering
Job Level
Senior
Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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AI Systems Design
He designs the AI systems that shape how engineering teams build software and products at NerdWallet.
Distributed Systems
A core skill throughout his career, he has published articles on achieving fault tolerance in complex distributed systems.
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Career

Work history

3-2026
Senior Director of Engineering
NerdWallet
2-2024 - 3-2026
Director of Engineering
NerdWallet
10-2023 - 2-2024
Contract (Director of Technology)
Costco Wholesale
8-2020 - 2-2024
Director of Technology
Improving
2-2019 - 12-2023
Contract (Director of Technology)
Optum
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Education
2008 - 2012
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Luther College
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