Aaron Bell
Cloud Architect at EVEREVE
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Bell is a Cloud Architect with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and operating highly available Linux and cloud-native systems for retail and media leaders, currently shaping infrastructure at EVEREVE from Minneapolis. He has driven large-scale automation and service discovery projects—building an internal OpenStack cloud, deploying Salt-based automation, and implementing Consul across environments—while earlier roles at Netflix and Best Buy focused on reliability and automation for massive AWS consumption. A pragmatic DevOps proponent, Aaron blends deep systems engineering with backend development experience, including notable open-source contributions to the Ruby fog library where he enhanced ELB support for VPCs. He is comfortable across the stack from clustering and PostgreSQL replication to cloud orchestration and monitoring, and leans on autodidactic learning rather than formal degrees. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex cloud requirements into reliable, testable deployments and for contributing practical fixes and tooling in active open-source projects.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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English, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (7)
ruby10
aws10
back-end-development10
testing10
cloud-computing9
aws-elb9
vpc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
fog/fog
Jun 2012 - Jun 2012
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the `fog/fog` repository, a Ruby cloud services library, focusing on enhancing the AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) support. The user added support for internal ELBs within VPCs, including modifications to model and request files to accommodate the `scheme` attribute. Further contributions involved fixing tests and parser issues and adding an ELB helper, indicating active development and testing of the new features.
cloud-servicesrubygemstest-kitchenfogruby
systembell/salt-consul
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 32 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 months
consulsalt
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