Aaron Smith
Lead Data Platform Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Smith is a Lead Data Platform Engineer in Austin with 8 years building high-throughput, stream-first systems on AWS, Kafka, and Kinesis. He designs and operates enterprise-scale pipelines ingesting billions of events daily, and brings hands-on expertise in Scala, Go, Rust, and Python to solve production reliability and performance challenges. Aaron has driven architectural migrations and cost-saving consolidations—most recently leading platform efforts at Halcyon after architecting stream-based platforms at JumpCloud and IronNet. He also co-invented a patented user correlation engine at Sevco and redesigned plugin systems to make integrations more flexible and maintainable. An active open-source contributor, he improved CI/CD and packaging for pmdarima, Python’s go-to auto.arima equivalent, demonstrating DevOps depth beyond core engineering. His background in bioinformatics and early roles in labs and healthcare inform a disciplined, data-driven approach to engineering and operational rigor.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry and Genetics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry and Genetics at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (21)
algorithms10
solve10
bash10
wheels10
solution10
script10
raku10
pypi10
testing9
python9
test-integration8
integration-testing8
fileio7
dockers7
file-access7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alkaline-ml/pmdarima
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
A statistical library designed to fill the void in Python's time series analysis capabilities, including the equivalent of R's auto.arima function.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 35 reviews, 130 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Aaron's contributions primarily focused on improving the build, testing, and deployment infrastructure. They migrated builds to Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions, replacing existing Appveyor and Travis builds. The user implemented and refined CI/CD processes, including adding and modifying scripts for documentation deployment, wheel building, and PyPI releases. These changes aimed to streamline the build process, improve testing, and enhance the project's release management.
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manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Knowledge base for The Weekly Challenge club members using Perl, Raku, Ada, APL, Awk, Bash, BASIC, Bc, Befunge-93, Bourne Shell, BQN, Brainfuck, C3, C, CESIL, C++, C#, Clojure, COBOL, Coconut, Crystal, D, Dart, Dc, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Excel VBA, Fennel, Fish, Forth, Fortran, Gembase, GNAT, Go, Haskell, Haxe, HTML, Idris, IO, J, Janet, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, M4, Miranda, Modula 3, MMIX, Mumps, Myrddin, Nim, Nix, Node.js, Nuweb, OCaml, Odin, Ook, Pascal, PHP, Python, Postscript, Prolog, R, Ring, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, Sed, Smalltalk, SQL, Swift, Tcl, TypeScript, Visual BASIC, WebAssembly, Wolfram, XSLT and Zig.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 29 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the repository by solving coding challenges related to The Weekly Challenge, a coding puzzle platform. Their work involved implementing solutions in Raku across multiple challenges (107-117). These solutions frequently involved algorithmic problem-solving and testing, demonstrating a strong grasp of Raku's syntax and features, and including reading from file and parsing content.
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