Aaron Simmons
Principal Software Engineer at Maxar Space Systems
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Simmons is a pragmatic software engineer with 14 years of experience building cross-platform systems from embedded firmware to cloud-native CI/CD, currently based in Boulder, Colorado. He thrives at the intersection of R&D and productization, having modernized simulation pipelines at Maxar (including containerizing ppc64be workloads and launching test-like-you-fly Kubernetes integrations) and productionized multimodal biometrics SDKs at Sensory. Comfortable workinɡ deep in C++/Python/C and also orchestrating golang, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS, he’s frequently the person teams call on for gnarly multi-threading and integration bugs. He prefers skeptical, test-first engineering and enjoys translating complex technical designs into clear, usable APIs and workflows for diverse audiences. Notably, he has a history of bootstrapping entire ecosystems—whether cross-compiling toolchains or building a "power cloud" of IBM PowerPC servers—to make ambitious testing and deployment visions real.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Louisiana State University
English, Tagalog
Stackoverflow
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87answers
115questions
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
k8s10
multiarch10
buster10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
debian-based10
groovy10
package-manager10
unit-testing10
css10
container-image10
opencv10
programming-language10
python10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
paleozogt/MSVCDocker
Aug 2018 - Sep 2020
MSVC via Wine in Docker
Contributions:145 commits, 7 PRs, 223 pushes in 2 years 1 month
winemsvcdocker
paleozogt/clang
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Unofficial Python bindings to libclang
Contributions:225 pushes, 8 branches in 8 months
libclangpython-bindingspythonpython3
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