Aaron Rodericks
Aaron Rodericks on a Dublin street as a tram passes behind him

About

Building safety systems that scale

Aaron Rodericks leads Trust & Safety at Bluesky, designing the moderation operations, policy, and governance systems behind a 44M-user platform.

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A trust & safety operator who has built and run safety systems at scale at two defining platforms — Twitter/X and Bluesky — with earlier roots in government, now working at the frontier of decentralized and AI-era safety.

Based in Dublin, Ireland Canadian national LinkedIn →

Career highlights

From public-sector governance to global platform integrity, Aaron has built Trust & Safety systems that operate under scale, speed, and regulatory pressure.

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Bluesky Social

As one of Bluesky’s earliest hires, Aaron solo-scaled the Trust & Safety function from a sub-3-million-user protocol experiment to roughly 25 million users before building the team behind it. He navigated a million-user-per-day growth surge, 250,000 user reports in a single day, the establishment of new legal entities globally, and regulatory compliance across the EU DSA and the UK and Australian Online Safety Acts — all at a pre-revenue startup. Bluesky now serves 44M+ users with a 24/7 operation of 100+ moderators and proactive AI detection systems.

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Twitter / X

Over five years at Twitter, Aaron led the Site Integrity team in Dublin before taking over Threat Disruption globally. His portfolio covered scaled threats, election integrity, influence operations, misinformation, and coordinated inauthentic behavior. Following the 2022 acquisition, he served as one of the global Trust & Safety co-leads.

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Canadian Federal Government

Aaron spent over a decade in the Canadian Federal Government — Global Affairs Canada, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, the National Research Council, and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. He was part of a small team that pioneered “direct diplomacy” — using social media data to maintain engagement in destabilized states after traditional diplomatic channels had collapsed. His research into extremist networks contributed to the formation of the Global Coalition Against Daesh/ISIS.

Speaking, advisory, and writing

Three ways to engage Aaron’s work: keynotes and conferences, advisory engagements, and ongoing writing.

Speaking

Keynotes on AI safety, trust & safety, and platform governance.

Advisory

Limited engagements with platforms, policy bodies, and startups.

Writing

Op-eds and research on AI safety, trust & safety, and platform governance.

What Aaron brings

Built at scale

Designed and operated Trust & Safety systems through hypergrowth and high-volume reporting.

Policy to operations

Translates governance and regulation into workflows teams can run daily.

Cross-sector perspective

Government, Big Tech, and startups — applied to real trade-offs, not theoretical ones.

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For speaking, advisory, media, or trust & safety enquiries — share a few details and I’ll be in touch.

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