Aaron Smith
Lead Engineer, Cloud Services (Working Remotely) at Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
Flower Mound, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Smith is a cloud and virtualization leader with 10+ years building resilient infrastructure and automation for large enterprises, currently leading Cloud Services remotely for Ameriprise Financial. He combines deep VMware and AWS expertise—designing vSAN and HyperFlex datacenters, migrating managed services to hybrid cloud, and authoring automation for AMI builds, patching, and governance—to cut costs and accelerate delivery. A former VMware senior engineer and TAM, he’s equally comfortable in customer-facing design reviews and hands-on scripting, contributing PowerCLI tooling that analyzes VMware environments. Known for pragmatic automation (PowerShell, Python, Ruby) and security-focused standards (custom CIS benchmarks), he mentors development teams on cloud-native patterns. Based in Flower Mound, Texas, he pairs a strong academic record in computer science with a curiosity-driven approach that often finds elegant engineering shortcuts not obvious at first glance.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, 3.90, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, 3.90 at Augsburg College
English
Github Skills (9)
powershell10
vsphere10
powercli10
vmware10
vmware-workstation10
vmware-tools10
scripting10
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/PowerCLI-Example-Scripts
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the development of PowerCLI scripts designed to report on VMware environments. Their work focused on creating and refining scripts to analyze VM CD-drive configurations and snapshot information. This included adding functionalities like calculating snapshot ages and incorporating metadata to adhere to PowerActions standards. The user demonstrates a strong understanding of PowerCLI scripting and VMware vSphere environments.
aaronwsmith/powercli
Jul 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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