Aaron Hetherington
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Hetherington is a Principal Software Engineer based in Ireland with 11 years’ experience designing and delivering scalable distributed systems, AI/automation platforms, and cloud-native microservices. At Red Hat he led the architecture and launch of the Fleet Management product, mentoring engineers and creating reusable blueprints for a highly scalable microservice platform. His earlier work at Jaguar Land Rover combined product ownership and R&D in distributed ledger projects—shaping real-world proofs of concept like IOTA-based toll payments and green charging provenance. Aaron cut his teeth at Intel contributing to the open-source RDT user-space tools (intel-cmt-cat), improving monitoring APIs and multi-class profile handling for CPU resource control. He blends hands-on C systems programming with product-focused leadership and a practical knack for turning research prototypes into production-ready services. Colleagues describe him as a technical steward who pairs deep platform knowledge with clear guidance for teams shipping complex systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at C.B.S. Carrick-on-SuirCBSBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Limerick
English, French
Github Skills (9)
c1710
c1110
performance-monitoring9
c-programming9
disk-cache9
web-cache9
object-cache9
memory-cache9
caching9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
intel/intel-cmt-cat
Jun 2015 - Jul 2017
User space software for Intel(R) Resource Director Technology
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:96 commits, 11 comments, 3 issues in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Aaron's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Intel CMT/CAT user space software. Their contributions included enabling profile selection for systems with multiple CAT classes, involving modifications to the `profiles.c` file. Further commits involved changes to the monitoring poll API, specifically utilizing double pointers in the `main.c` and `lib/host_monitoring.c` files. The user also updated the copyright year across multiple files within the project.
snmpmbaintelrdtllc
intel/soft-crc
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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