Aaren De Jong
Senior Technical Product Manager at Red Hat
Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAaren De Jong is a Senior Technical Product Manager with a decade of hands-on experience championing Linux-first infrastructure, storage, and cloud-native platforms at Red Hat and in consulting roles. He combines deep operational expertise in Debian/RedHat, ZFS, LVM, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and IaC tooling with a knack for translating technical complexity into practical solutions for customers and partners. Comfortable speaking publicly about open source, he also drives developer-focused product decisions informed by real-world DevOps and GitOps practices. Bilingual in English and French, Aaren pairs a systems engineer’s attention to detail with product instincts, currently exploring advanced GitOps, Kubernetes Operators, and the HashiCorp stack. His background—spanning enterprise Unix implementations to co-founding a web/media venture—reveals an engineer who enjoys ambitious, educational side projects and persuading conservative enterprises to adopt pragmatic open-source approaches.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Courses Ongoing, Courses Ongoing at LinuxAcademy / A Cloud GuruCourse Completion, RH124 & RH134, Course Completion, RH124 & RH134 at Exit Certified[College Certification], Audio Engineering Technology, [College Certification], Audio Engineering Technology at Trebas Institutevarious courses, various courses at CBT Nuggets
English, French
Github Skills (123)
tooling10
python10
terraform10
gmail10
automation10
ssh10
network-configuration10
commons10
artifacts10
ansible10
outlook10
kubernetes10
graph10
openshift10
documentation10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
arendej/Abashe
Jun 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
dotfilesshellbash
funixz/ansible
Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems.
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
pythonit-automationdevopsansibleplain-english
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