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Who am I?

I'm a passionate DevOps Engineer with a love for adventure! When I'm not optimizing IT processes, you'll find me dancing, exploring places on public transit, or challenging myself with hikes and rock climbs.

This blend of enthusiasm and expertise enables me to approach problem-solving with creativity. I'd love to help your org streamline their workflows, automate tasks, and implement innovative solutions that boost efficiency!

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Testimonials

What Are People Saying?

Love having Aaron on my delivery team. He's very much on top of things, often getting things done before we realize it. Moreover, he's been fantastic at collaborating with other coworkers on the delivery team as well as running meetings with client stakeholders. We've gotten great feedback on him personally from the client.

Gregory Patmore | Sep 21, 2020
Aaron immediately jumped in suggesting Postgres for storing TF state which we ended up using at the customer! Now in my first engagement with him he has jumped right back in assisting with k8s installs of Jenkins and Artifactory. He has patiently helped me out with some things about Rancher I did not know and paired throughout. He is super fun and easy to work with. He very quickly figured out every bump in the road with the helm installs.

Paul Kordes | Sep 23, 2020
Working with Aaron was a great experience, he had a lot of patience with me and I saw my coding skills improved greatly. Also, Aaron's presentation skills are excellent which makes demos fun. Keep being an enthusiastic influence!

Jason Lutz | Sep 22, 2020
Aaron is an outstanding technical driven person, I have seen Aaron grow in multiple areas including his interaction with the stakeholder. He earns the teams and stakeholder trust in every engagement he has ever been on. Time after time he has proven to have excellent technical chaps. For Aaron "There is always a way" I personally would take Aaron with me on any engagement, should the opportunity present itself. Aaon is a very responsible individual and takes feedback and applies his learnings almost immediately.

Henry Gallo | Oct 25, 2020

Services

What Do I Do?

I use technology to empower development teams to deliver software better, faster, & stronger.

Teaching

Learn to use a public cloud like a pro. From the basics to advanced strategies, I’ll give you the knowledge and skills you need to fully leverage the power of the public cloud.
Tuning

Take control of your costs. From identifying and eliminating unnecessary expenses to implementing cost-saving strategies, I’ll help you get the most out of your technology investment.
Templates

Streamline your operations with templates. From deployments to scaling, templates provide you with a proven foundation to build upon and allow you to focus on growing your business.

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Experience

What? You don’t want to just take my word for it that I know what I’m talking about? I guess some healthy scepticism is a good thing. You can also view the Google Docs version.

Experience Achievements

NOV 2020 - PRESENT

Cloud Engineer , SADA

Led technical relationships with 20+ clients which directly lead to deals closing.
Architected & assisted adoption of Google Cloud’s Gen AI Tooling in 4+ organizations.
Built relationships with Google reps, leading to an increased lead generation.
Co-Presented with Googlers both internally & externally, establishing SADA's brand.
Architected a secure application for a social media startup with over 2 million active users.
Automated parts of the internal sales pipeline, saving valuable cycles.
Successfully supported the migration from AWS to GCP for multiple customers.
Developed multiple professional services offerings based on observations of market needs.

SEP 2019 - NOV 2020

DevOps Consultant , Contino

Created automation to enforce git tagging rules to follow Semantic Versioning.
Deployed CI/CD platform enforcing FedRAMP medium standards to all environments.
Developed automated tests to guarantee proper terraform deployment.
Created a POC terraform provider which wraps GCP storage objects.
Migrated AWS Service Control Policies from a manual workflow to an automated policy-as-code workflow at a global financial ratings and intelligence firm.
Lead pair programming sessions, upskilling clients on Cloud best practices.

SEP 2019 - JAN 2020

DevOps Contractor , Functionize

Designed a solution for running Selenium tests against Windows browsers in GKE.
Configured secure remote access to Jenkins using Google Cloud’s Identity-Aware Proxy.
Containerized a legacy node.js application, allowing it to be migrated to Kubernetes.
Created private Kubernetes deployment, integrating with k8s & GKE best practices.

JUN 2019 - AUG 2019

Data Engineering Intern , Soterea

Developed & deployed a data management tool, replacing manual data transfers.
Deployed an ELK Stack to collect and visualize metrics across the company.
Facilitated company adoption and upskilling of Git and Docker.

DEC 2017 - MAY 2019

DevOps Engineer , iconectiv

Setup Kubernetes to support CI workflow, reducing build wait times.
Stabilized build and deployment by dockerizing jobs, allowing for greater test repeatability.
Developed automated testing tools to support API & Data integrity tests, drastically reducing test development time and increasing test coverage.
Reduced GUI testing time by deploying Selenoid grid cluster, reducing test time by 10x.
Provided training for Git & TensorFlow, which facilitated tool adoption.
Created a dockerized version of MongoDB’s Ops Manager.

OCT 2016 - OCT 2019

A.I. Team Member , Princeton PAVE Club

Created a program to detect lane lines on a video stream using OpenCV.
On-boarded & taught new members TensorFlow.
Created a neural network to clone human driving in a simulator.
Developed a Vehicle Detector using OpenCV & Keras.

OCT 2016 - JAN 2017

Co-Founder , Soda Hop Media

Developed and demoed a prototype cloud gaming application.
Automated AWS instance creation & VPN connections to ensure secure connections.
Automated bidding on AWS spot instances, lowering server costs by over 70%.

OCT 2016 - JAN 2017

Contract Consultant , Minecraft Servers

Created the reward system for the largest Minecraft Server in the world.
Developed a plugin to translate Minecraft chat live via Google Translate.
Led a team of developers to create a modular mini-game framework.
Trained developers in how to use and develop for our mini-game framework.
Automated our deployments via Gradle to speed up the development cycle.

JUN 2022

GCP Professional Cloud Architect

"A Professional Cloud Architect enables organizations to leverage Google Cloud technologies. With a thorough understanding of cloud architecture and Google Cloud Platform, this individual can design, develop, and manage robust, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic solutions to drive business objectives." ~ Google Cloud

DEC 2018

GCP Associate Cloud Engineer

"An Associate Cloud Engineer deploys applications, monitors operations, and manages enterprise solutions. This individual is able to use Google Cloud Console and the command-line interface to perform common platform-based tasks to maintain one or more deployed solutions that leverage Google-managed or self-managed services on Google Cloud." ~ Google Cloud

DEC 2018

Eagle Scout

"Since 1912, the Eagle Scout rank has represented a milestone of accomplishment—perhaps without equal—that is recognized across the country and even the world." ~ Scouting.org

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