Aaron Lane
Director at Magnets New Zealand Ltd
New Zealand
Summary
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RockstarAaron Lane is a Director and seasoned DevOps/Cloud engineer based in New Zealand with 11 years of hands-on experience building and hardening infrastructure for Google Cloud using Terraform. He combines leadership of a long-standing family business in the magnet industry with technical seniority as a Senior Member of Technical Staff, giving him a pragmatic blend of commercial and engineering perspectives. Aaron is an active open-source contributor to prominent repos like terraform-google-modules and the Google Cloud Foundation Toolkit, where he improved GKE cluster automation, CI/CD pipelines, and test tooling. He focuses on reliability, maintainability, and reproducible builds—often tackling testing and build orchestration as much as cloud resource configuration. Comfortable working across both product and infrastructure domains, he brings practical engineering hygiene to large-scale cloud projects. An unusual strength is his ability to translate industrial supply-chain experience from a 40-year family business into disciplined, outcome-focused infrastructure practices.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
bash10
makefile10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
gcp10
terraformer10
script10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
devops10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
terraform-google-modules/terraform-google-project-factory
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
Creates an opinionated Google Cloud project by using Shared VPC, IAM, and Google Cloud APIs
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 releases, 251 commits, 90 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Aaron focused on improving the project's infrastructure and build processes. They addressed issues related to the installation of dependencies like `bats` and providers, and made changes to the build and release scripts, and also to the testing setup. They also enhanced the CI/CD setup, implemented checks for preconditions, and improved the error handling within the build scripts.
gcpappenginevpcapp-enginegoogle
terraform-google-modules/terraform-google-kubernetes-engine
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
Configures opinionated GKE clusters
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:10 releases, 173 commits, 71 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Aaron's contributions primarily involved enhancing the infrastructure configuration for GKE clusters managed by Terraform. They focused on improving the robustness and efficiency of the existing scripts, specifically in relation to cluster deployment and configuration, including handling service accounts, and integrating with various cloud services. They also introduced changes related to the testing infrastructure by modifying test scripts, adjusting how tests are executed, and ensuring that integration tests were correctly configured and executed. Further modifications improved the modules, ensuring proper module regeneration and overall maintainability within the existing Terraform structure.
containersclustersgooglek8skubernetes
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