Aaron Rosen
Entrepreneur Working With Entrepreneurs at AgentStat
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Rosen is an entrepreneurial software engineer and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building cloud, networking, and product-focused platforms from the Bay Area. He blends hands-on systems work—contributions to high-profile OpenStack projects like Neutron, Nova, and Devstack—with executive leadership as VP of Engineering, CTO and founder roles guiding teams through architecture, CI/CD, and on‑prem cloud deployments. He builds mission-driven products for conscious entrepreneurs and startups, applying ML in learning platforms and practical embedded and networking solutions (esp32, OpenWRT, vSphere). Known for fixing tricky networking and security edge cases, he’s comfortable operating across low-level infrastructure and customer-facing product strategy. Beyond code, Aaron positions himself as a connector and catalyst, helping founders turn ambitious ideas into tangible ventures. His background in academic research and core open-source cloud projects gives him a rare mix of experimental rigor and production-grade engineering discipline.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Engineering, Master Computer Engineering at Clemson University
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Github Skills (22)
debug10
python10
bash10
openstack-nova10
networking10
openstack10
openvswitch10
devops10
security9
configuration-management9
databases9
exception-handling9
aws-security-group9
network-security-groups9
database9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/neutron
May 2012 - May 2016
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:238 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily addressed bugs and implemented features within the OpenStack Neutron networking project. Their work included resolving issues in the Open vSwitch agent related to tunnel management and port handling. The contributions also involved supporting the v2 Quantum API, including adding support for security groups, and ensuring the stability and functionality of the DHCP agent within the Neutron environment. The user also contributed to improving performance.
ospfopenflownetwork-automationnetworkingsdn
openstack/nova
Sep 2012 - Aug 2014
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:111 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the OpenStack Nova compute project. Their work focused on correcting issues related to network interface ordering, security group handling, and exception handling. The user also addressed code quality issues, such as renaming variables and correcting typos. These changes directly impacted the stability and reliability of the networking and compute aspects of OpenStack.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
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