Aaron C.

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About Aaron C.

Dear recruiter, Aaron is not interested in permanent roles. Save yourself some time. Thank you! Aaron has been designing and developing software for over 20 years. In that time, Aaron has acquired a great deal of experience in solution design, development, engineering, project/team leadership and process improvement. Coming from a technical background, Aaron also has a deep practical understanding of technicalities and pitfalls, making him an highly effective architect and planner. Aaron is a strong advocate for DevOps automation and Agile done right. Aaron has highly developed social dexterity, leads by example, has excellent analytical/problem solving skills; and he has highly effective verbal and written communication. Aaron is a technically and socially diverse individual with a wide range of abilities - from artistic, algorithmic, interpersonal relationships and data modelling. Business skills Design, development and engineering Solution design, architecture and engineering with many technologies and system infrastructures. Solid object oriented, test driven design and development experience. Data modelling across multiple technologies, databases such as relational, nosql, Redis, LDAP etc. System architecture design/development for GCP (and some AWS) including docker based development, microservice design and Rancher 2.0 platform design and development. Single-sign-on solution design for integration with IDp technologies including Ping identity and Auth0. Very strong documentation discipline and proficiency. Team coordination Solid team leadership experience and technical leadership to project management teams, from start-up CTO, to technical co-founder, to technical team lead. Has led projects with around 10 direct reports in size and has mentored many development team members. Introduced test driven and agile development disciplines to small teams. Is personable and direct with a flexible, enabling, hands-off leadership style. Currently runs a design/development team of ~6 in his spare time.