Arron Atchison
Principal Software Engineer at Autodesk
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArron Atchison is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building cloud infrastructure and backend systems. He currently drives architecture and delivery at Autodesk after progressing from senior cloud infrastructure roles and DevOps consulting. A daily GNU/Linux and open source enthusiast, he contributes to notable projects like Mycroft AI—refactoring weather integrations and improving build/deployment tooling for the voice assistant platform. Arron blends systems-level thinking with hands-on backend development and package management expertise, often tackling deployment and integration pain points. He’s comfortable in startup environments and large engineering organizations alike, bringing pragmatic solutions that favor reproducibility and automation. Beyond the obvious, he pairs deep Linux tooling familiarity with an ability to modernize legacy build systems into scalable CI/CD workflows.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
English
Github Skills (15)
openweathermap10
weather10
api8
bash8
script8
linux8
scripting8
architectures7
python7
architecture7
system7
nlp4
open-source4
natural-language-processing4
ai4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
MycroftAI/mycroft-core
May 2016 - Nov 2017
Mycroft Core, the Mycroft Artificial Intelligence platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:48 releases, 262453 commits, 254 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Arron primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Mycroft AI platform, specifically within the weather skill. Their work involved refactoring and updating the PyOWM library for weather data integration, showing a focus on back-end development. Furthermore, the user made changes to the build and deployment scripts, demonstrating an understanding of system architecture and package management.
pythonnatural-language-processingraspberry-piartificialnatural-language
MycroftAI/mycroft-skills-data
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
Metrics and data relating to Skills built for the Mycroft Core system
Contributions:339 commits in 11 months
mycroftweb-applicationterminologyprometheusmetrics
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