Arron Hocking
Staff Platform Architect
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArron Hocking is a Staff Platform Architect with over 26 years of engineering experience who now focuses on accelerating developer experience and platform operations for cloud-native applications. He blends deep hands-on software craftsmanship—rooted in two decades of test-driven development—with leadership building teams to deploy, run, secure, monitor, and scale platforms like Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, VMware Tanzu, AWS, and Azure. His career spans high-regulation domains including federal work, where reliability engineering and compliance are core design drivers. Arron has repeatedly improved delivery pipelines and developer workflows, from introducing CI/CD and branching strategies to modernizing legacy builds and platform services. He thrives on mentoring and enabling customer teams, bridging technical strategy and practical execution across architecture, operations, and security. Based in Fort Collins, CO, he brings rare continuity from low-level systems and Unix administration to large-scale cloud platform delivery.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
Github Skills (3)
pcf9
concourse9
cloud-foundry9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ahocking/cli-tools
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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