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Ari Wilson

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Senior Engineering Director, Site Lead at Celonis
📍 Redondo Beach, California, United States

Ari is a Senior Engineering Director at Celonis, where he builds and scales teams focused on data, business insights, and advertising. His experience includes a long tenure at Google working on large-scale distributed systems and machine learning for ads. He holds both a BS and MS from Vanderbilt University.

Outside of his professional life, Ari is a self-described "technology junkie" who codes for fun, maintaining a public GitHub with personal projects. He is an avid science fiction reader, enjoys video games, and listens to Iron Maiden and other rock bands. He also shares his thoughts on his personal blog.

He once started a Substack project with the goal of watching and reviewing every Sam Neill film in existence.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Senior Engineering Director, Site Lead
Job Level
Senior
Location
Redondo Beach, California, United States
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Scaling Engineering Teams
Focuses on building and scaling teams in fast-growing organizations, specifically where incentives are misaligned and technical depth is required.
Large-Scale Systems
Previously led multiple teams at Google building distributed systems managing petabytes of data with low-latency requirements for ads forecasting.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Senior Engineering Director, Site Lead
Celonis
3-2022 - 9-2025
Engineering Director, Site Lead
Celonis
3-2018 - 3-2022
Senior Engineering Manager, Ads Media Planning
Google
11-2014 - 3-2018
Staff Software Engineer, Ads Forecasting
Google
3-2012 - 11-2014
Tech Lead, Search Ads Forecasting
Google
In the press

Media appearances

Engineering leadership: A server crash taught me this one critical lesson. Featured in Celonis Blog
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Education
MS
Vanderbilt University
BS
Vanderbilt University
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