Summary
Aaron Jones is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale, event-driven systems for government, defense, and top-tier tech companies like Amazon and MasterCard. Based in Seattle, he has led end-to-end delivery of data platforms and self-service data warehouses in Google Cloud and designed organization-wide event architectures using Kafka, Storm, Scala, and modern Java practices. He combines deep systems and streaming expertise with practical delivery skills—authoring technical standards and requirements that became departmental templates—and has implemented production services from scheduling and SQS clients to high-throughput billing and notifications pipelines. Comfortable across cloud, big data, and legacy modernization efforts, Aaron is particularly focused on Big Data and large-scale application distribution and brings a proven ability to translate complex requirements into maintainable, testable systems. An often overlooked strength is his knack for migrating and modernizing legacy stacks (Perl, legacy billing systems) into robust, scalable Java and cloud-native solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Missouri State University
English