Aaron Hurt
Platform Engineering Lead
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Hurt is a Platform Engineering Lead with 14 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure and software across cloud, networking, and edge domains. He has led distributed teams at Amazon and now drives platform efforts at Bayer, translating petabytes of scientific and operational data into production-grade systems. A hands-on leader and former principal engineer, he has deep experience in backend integrations and security—contributing to notable open-source projects like FreeRADIUS (Couchbase integration and session management) and fabio (HSTS and proxy hardening). Colleagues describe him as a consensus-building coach who cultivates ownership and cross-functional collaboration while staying current with emerging tools. He combines operational rigor from running large VMware and SAN environments with a developer’s curiosity for elegant solutions.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at DeVry UniversityHaskell Indian Nations University
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Github Skills (20)
json10
reverse-proxy10
couchbase10
testing10
load-balancing10
c1110
hsts10
go-testing10
c1710
consul10
go10
radius10
golang10
authentication9
user-authentication9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
fabiolb/fabio
Jan 2018 - May 2021
Consul Load-Balancing made simple
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 70 commits, 96 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the fabio project. They implemented features related to HSTS response headers and integrated tests to validate this new functionality. Furthermore, they contributed to the configuration by adding settings for HSTS. The user also addressed security concerns by preventing access control bypass via XFF headers, demonstrating a focus on secure and reliable proxy configuration.
golangdockervaultload-balancingconsul
FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server
May 2013 - Aug 2015
FreeRADIUS - A multi-protocol policy server.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on extending the FreeRADIUS server's functionality by integrating it with Couchbase. Their contributions involved implementing a Couchbase module, which included creating connection handling, implementing key-value storage, and building a mechanism to map FreeRADIUS attributes to JSON elements. They also added support for dynamic client loading from Couchbase documents and implemented session management features to check and verify simultaneous user logins.
policymulti-protocolarpdot1xbfd
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