Aaron Roney
Senior Engineering Manager at Cruise
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Roney is a senior engineering manager in Seattle with over a decade of experience leading large cloud and developer-productivity organizations at Cruise, Oracle, and Microsoft. He blends hands-on systems programming in Rust, C#, Java, Go and Python with strategic platform architecture to deliver scalable ML orchestration, build systems, and region deployment automation that saved his company hundreds of thousands per month. He has grown teams rapidly (e.g., scaling MLI Compute from 5 to 20) and coached multiple engineers through senior promotions while maintaining high performance and retention. A former founder who sold a profitable startup, he pairs product-minded leadership with deep technical chops from a UW MS in CS and a BS in Nuclear Engineering. Aaron is also an active contributor to Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell, improving documentation, UX and backend storage/management commands, reflecting a focus on developer experience across open-source and enterprise projects. He is known for creating nurturing engineering cultures that amplify individual growth while delivering measurable infrastructure outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.S.) Nuclear Engineering and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Nuclear Engineering and Mathematics at Texas A&M University
English
Stackoverflow
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12answers
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Github Skills (15)
powershell10
api-management10
read-me10
python10
documentation10
azure-cli10
microsoft-azure9
asp-net-core-web-api9
azure9
cloud-computing8
app-service8
github7
asp-net-core-mvc6
command-line-interface6
asp-net6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-powershell
Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:186 commits, 31 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Aaron's contributions focused on merging and updating code branches, specifically related to the storage functionality within the PowerShell module. The user appears to be making changes to support for various API Management commands, which suggests working with infrastructure-as-code. The user also implemented the `Send-Feedback` cmdlet, indicating an effort to gather user feedback for module improvement. The majority of the changes involved working with help files, indicating a focus on documentation and user experience.
microsoft-azurepowershellazuremicrosoft-azure-powershellarm
Azure/azure-cli
Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
Azure Command-Line Interface
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 32 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributes to documentation updates, refining installation instructions, and improving the clarity of the README.rst file. Their contributions also extend to code-level improvements, including fixing bugs in the app service modules and adding examples for network and storage commands. The user demonstrates an understanding of both front-end presentation and back-end configuration, working across different modules of the Azure CLI. The scope of the changes suggests a focus on improving the user experience and expanding the functionality of the CLI tool.
azurecommand-line-interfaceazure-clicloud
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