Aaron Paxson
Senior Practice Manager, Solutions Architecture at ExtraHop
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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SeniorAaron Paxson is a Senior Practice Manager in Solutions Architecture with over two decades of hands-on IT experience, currently leading a team at ExtraHop to design networking-anchored solutions across performance, security, and integrations. He blends deep network engineering roots (switching/routing, VoIP, DNS/AD) with software skills in Java, Python, and JavaScript to deliver measurable operational improvements and solve problems customers didn’t know they had. Known for treating the network as the single source of truth, he drives outcomes through metrics, automation (Ansible), SDN concepts, and wire-data analytics. Aaron has a track record scaling practice capability from senior architect to practice manager and now senior practice manager, while also authoring technical content for Pluralsight. Outside work he codes personal Django apps and makes mead, a hobby that reflects his curiosity and methodical experimentation. He prioritizes customer success and team enablement over vanity KPIs, focusing on pragmatic, auditable solutions that make others’ jobs easier.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
11reputation
279reached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (10)
pylance6
pint6
python6
django6
django-authentication6
expect4
intelligent4
ssh2
quantities2
paramiko1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tonyHuinker/customDevice_updater
Nov 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
apaxson/batchthis
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:56 pushes, 2 branches, 11 issues in 1 year 6 months
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