Aaron Warner
Principal Engineer at Westpac New Zealand
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Warner is a Principal Engineer based in Auckland with eight years of focused experience in automation, orchestration and systems engineering across Microsoft and VMware ecosystems. He brings a strong operational background turned developer mindset, currently shaping automation at Westpac after SRE and public cloud roles that span government and enterprise. Comfortable moving between code and operations, he contributes backend Lua AI improvements to the FAForever open-source game project, showing an appetite for intricate logic and performance tuning beyond traditional infrastructure work. His career progression reflects deep hands-on migration, orchestration and cloud delivery experience accumulated over long-tenured roles, not just short-term contracts. Colleagues rely on him to translate operational constraints into reliable automation and resilient platform designs. He combines pragmatic engineering with a passion for improving decision logic, whether in production systems or game AI.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
St. Peters CollegeCertificate in Business Computers, Certificate in Business Computers at AUT University
Github Skills (5)
lua10
develop10
ai10
game-ai10
scripting9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
FAForever/fa
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
Lua code for FAF
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 reviews, 30 commits, 100 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributes to the Lua codebase, specifically focusing on the AI logic within the "faforever/fa" repository, which suggests that the user is a back-end developer. They are responsible for fixing bugs and improving the AI's behavior by adjusting timings, fixing logic errors, and updating AI components. The user's work has the impact of enhancing the AI's performance in strategic decision-making within the game.
luafaf
relent0r/RNGAI
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:956 commits, 17 PRs, 1721 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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