Aaron Sparks
Principal Product Manager at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Sparks is a product leader and former founder with 6 years in software-focused roles and over two decades of cross-disciplinary experience bridging product, fraud detection, and finance. Now a Principal Product Manager at Amazon in Seattle, he led AWS Cognito’s product and developer experience teams and built high-scale authentication and fraud-prevention services. He has hands-on technical chops—formerly an SDE at Amazon and prototyping clustering and scoring in SQL/Python—paired with operational rigor from building compliance, KYC/AML, and money-transmitter programs as a CEO. His background includes leading global forensic product development at KPMG and large treasury and risk programs at Intellectual Ventures, giving him fluency in audit, controls, and secure systems. Known for turning investigative insights into production-grade services (e.g., BotDefender) and for raising and piloting mission-driven payment products in East Africa, he blends entrepreneurial grit with enterprise-scale delivery.
6 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Accounting, B.S. Accounting at Penn State University
Github Skills (17)
docker10
linux10
rust10
hosting10
operating-system10
operator7
kubernetes-operator6
admin6
remote-control6
nodejs5
testing5
kubernetes4
flexibility4
k8s3
autoscaling3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Sparksssj/bottlerocket-core-kit
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
A kit with core software packaged for Bottlerocket
Contributions:55 pushes, 13 branches in 5 months
Sparksssj/bottlerocket
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Contributions:5 PRs, 31 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
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