Aaron Hackney
Engineering Product Owner At Cisco
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Hackney is an engineering product owner and seasoned network security expert with over a decade of experience building and operationalizing large-scale network and security solutions at Cisco and Rackspace. He blends strategic product leadership with deep hands-on skills in NGFWs, F5, Citrix, and automation—frequently leveraging Python and APIs to scale firewall and network management across multi-datacenter environments. A former tenure-track instructor and training consultant, he pairs technical depth with a gift for translating complex networking concepts into teachable solutions. Based in Austin, he leans on strengths in intellection, strategic thinking, and continuous learning to drive pragmatic, long-term architectures. Known informally as a DevOps-focused hacker, he still codes and contributes to automation that makes enterprise security operationally sustainable.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Mathematics at Illinois State UniversityLeadership San Antonio Class 38M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at University of Illinois Springfield
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Github Skills (37)
bash8
linux8
golang8
modbus8
monitoring7
json7
http7
time-series7
kafka7
python-requests7
go7
python7
zsh7
macos7
shell7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CiscoDevNet/ansible-cisco-cdo
Jul 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:30 PRs, 106 pushes, 14 branches in 11 months
aaronhackney/pyftd
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:32 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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