Aaron Johnson
Senior Automation Engineer
Sherrard, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Johnson is a Senior Automation Engineer with 11 years of experience running production workloads and automating resilient cloud-native systems across AWS, GCP, and OpenStack. He specializes in Kubernetes and container orchestration, SRE-focused automation in Python and Go, and end-to-end CI/CD and configuration management to minimize downtime and error budgets. At CrowdStrike and previously Rackspace, he designed monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation practices using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk and Humio to keep high-availability services stable at scale. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he enhanced the grafana-backup-tool to broaden datasource support and restore functionality, showing a pragmatic focus on integration and operational tooling. Based in Sherrard, IL, he combines hands-on sysadmin roots with a continuous-improvement mindset that turns complex release workflows into predictable, low-risk operations.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Information Technology, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Information Technology at Blackhawk College, Moline ILAssociate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Computer Support Specialist, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Computer Support Specialist at Black Hawk College
Github Skills (11)
backup10
api10
grafana10
python10
apidoc10
influxdb8
aws-s36
docker6
amazon-s36
s3-bucket6
dockers6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
ysde/grafana-backup-tool
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
A Python-based application to backup Grafana settings by using the Grafana API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 18 reviews, 16 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the `grafana-backup-tool` by enhancing its functionality and expanding its compatibility. They added support for Python 2 to existing restore functions and refactored code for improved readability. Moreover, they implemented features like UID support for datasources and introduced support for InfluxDB integration, expanding the tool's capabilities for backing up and restoring Grafana configurations. These changes suggest the user focused on core functionality and integration aspects of the project.
apipythongrafana-apigrafana-backupgrafana
acjohnson/ansible
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:108 commits, 149 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
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