Aaron Whiteside
Principal Software Engineer at AppDirect
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarAaron Whiteside is a Principal Software Engineer with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering high-performance, scalable platforms in telco messaging and payments. He excels at distilling complex business requirements into simple, pragmatic architectures and has led engineering teams to build PCI/GDPR-compliant payment systems and geo-redundant messaging platforms. Comfortable across cloud architecture, API design, CI/CD and observability, he blends deep technical craft in Java/Kotlin and the Spring ecosystem with a practical focus on performance and reliability. A strong communicator and mentor, he routinely brings product, ops and exec stakeholders into alignment to accelerate delivery. Notably, he has driven reusable microservice frameworks and shared libraries that standardized security and operational best practices across organizations. Based in Los Angeles, he enjoys solving hard problems with small, quirky teams and turning messy requirements into elegant systems.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (200)
jenkins-api-plugin10
testng10
testing10
databases10
spring-security10
automation10
junit10
docker-container10
jenkins-plugin10
maven10
eclipse10
microservices10
load-testing10
integration-testing10
webdriver10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/pipeline-github-plugin
Apr 2018 - Sep 2021
Pipeline: GitHub
Contributions:3 reviews, 61 commits, 28 PRs in 3 years 5 months
jenkinsjenkins-pluginpipelinejenkins-api-plugingocd
aaronjwhiteside/pipeline-github
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 11 months
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