Aaron Sneddon
Senior Software Engineer at Proofpoint
Belfast Metropolitan Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Sneddon is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years' experience building high-performance systems and driving cloud modernisation for Proofpoint's market-leading email security product. He blends low-level C/C++ expertise from financial market data systems with cloud-native Java services, Kubernetes, Docker and AWS to deliver scalable, secure solutions. As the Belfast cybersecurity lead he proactively hardens services and coordinates global teams using Agile practices and CI/CD tooling like Jenkins, Harness, SonarQube and BlackDuck. Aaron's background teaching data structures in C++ and early work across QA and support give him a practical, customer-focused approach to debugging and release reliability. He holds a First Class BEng in Computer Science from Queen's University Belfast and is known for quietly bridging legacy codebases and modern cloud architectures.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation degree, Computing and Network Systems, Distinction, Foundation degree, Computing and Network Systems, Distinction at Southern Regional CollegeBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, First Class Honours at Queen's University Belfast
English
Github Skills (6)
api8
messaging-api8
messaging7
middleware7
fintech7
high-performance6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
arn7374/OpenMAMA
Jul 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 56 pushes, 24 branches in 3 years 10 months
arn7374/openmama.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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