Aaron Kimbrell
Lead Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
North Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Kimbrell is a Lead Quality Assurance Automation Engineer with nine years of experience building reliable test automation, DevOps pipelines, and moderation tooling for complex software systems. At BeyondTrust he progressed from QA Engineer to lead SDET, driving test planning and automation across security-focused products while maintaining hands-on involvement in CI/CD. He also contributes to the Darkflame Universe game as a maintainer and back-end developer, reverse-engineering client behavior, creating moderation dashboards, and shipping server-side game logic and tooling. Comfortable in Vue.js and Docker-based deployments, Aaron blends developer-level contributions with operational ownership—an engineer who moves between moderation, community-facing features, and low-level server fixes. His background in computer software engineering from Mississippi State and open-source work on projects like wger highlights a practical, systems-minded approach to shipping dependable software.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Mississippi State University
Github Skills (19)
docker10
c-language10
python10
tsql10
django10
configuration-management10
databases10
environment-variables10
gameserver10
dockers10
implement10
sql10
cprogramming-language10
devops10
server10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
DarkflameUniverse/DarkflameServer
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
The main repository for the Darkflame Universe Server Emulator project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1289 reviews, 173 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Aaron made several code changes focused on the server-side logic of the game, specifically within the SlashCommandHandler. These changes included the implementation of new chat commands such as setting GM levels, modifying PvP flags, displaying ping information, and controlling various game states through UI messages. The commits also involved modifications to database interactions for logging chat commands. Furthermore, the user implemented missing scripts, including fixes for water and fan related objects.
universeemulatorgamenetworkingserver-emulator
wger-project/wger
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout, nutrition and weight tracker
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 16 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Aaron focused on improving the deployment and configuration of the application within a Docker and unRAID environment. Their contributions include setting up environment variable configurations, integrating SMTP email options, and correcting string-to-boolean logic. The user's work also involved integrating changes from the master branch.
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