Aaron Spear
Staff Engineer Software Architect at VMware
Evergreen, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Spear is a seasoned Staff Engineer and Software Architect with over two decades of experience designing and shipping embedded hardware, firmware, and large-scale developer tooling. He has led and mentored distributed engineering teams, owning products from requirements through release—most notably a multi-million line, cross-platform embedded systems IDE and high-value debuggers for multi-core and mobile processors. Now at VMware, he architects cloud-native developer portals and tooling for the Software Defined Data Center, bringing deep low-level debugging expertise (ARM, PowerPC, MIPS, DSPs) to modern cloud platforms. Comfortable in languages from Java and C++ to Python and assembler, he pairs OS-level knowledge across Linux, Android and RTOSes with a long history of customer-facing technical rescue and product pitches. Unusually, his background blends hands-on hardware bring-up and bit-level debugging with contemporary interests in cloud, TDD, tracing and power optimization—plus a stint as a touring musician that honed leadership and resilience on the road.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (68)
installer10
esxi10
data-api10
vcenter10
airwatch9
ftp9
validation9
api9
swift9
powershell9
workspace9
izpack9
maven9
shell8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aspear/CIFT
Apr 2011 - Jun 2011
Contributions:29 commits in 1 month
aspear/izpack5-example-installer
Oct 2011 - Nov 2021
This is a complete example of an izpack 5.x based installer that uses Maven to build.
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 10 years 2 months
javainstallerizpackmaven
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