Aaron Evans
1400 NW 59th St., #4
Seattle, WA 98107
aaron@aarone.org
http://aarone.org
Summary
Experienced software developer providing technology leadership and business focus.
Deep understanding of software and systems architecture, web services, and infrastructure.
Broad experience ranging from back-end Java web services to front-end Rails websites.
Effective communicator with demonstrated ability to influence teams.
Experience
2009 - present
Amazon Web Services
Software Development Engineer
Infrastructure Automation
- Lead developer for internal tools which dramatically reduced infrastructure procurement cycle times.
- Maintained critical MySQL database which stores information about Amazon's infrastructure.
- Designed and developed web services for a server provisioning system.
- Made extensive modifications to Amazon's provisioning system.
- Provided periodic 24/7 on-call support for server provisioning system used throughout Amazon.
2006 - 2009
Comcast Interactive Media
Sr. Software Developer
- Designed and implemented RESTful web services for syndicating an entertainment database to internal partners.
- Developed features for an internal content-management system to support new features on comcast.net and fancast.com
- Responded to production issues.
2005 - 2006
Bristol Capital, Inc
Software Developer
- Wrote software to parse and store telephone switch data using Cocoa and PostgreSQL.
- Wrote software that generates XML content and PDF graphs for use in a DocBook workflow.
- Maintained a PostgreSQL database. Setup backup scripts, designed schemas, and resolved performance problems.
2002 - 2005
University of Pennsylvania
Research Assistant/Ph.D. Student
- Performed research tasks related to programming support for embedded wireless devices.
- Wrote reviews of academic papers for conferences.
- Passed all written preliminary exams.
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Degree: Master of Arts and Science (December 2003)
Major: Computer Science
GPA: 3.72
Villanova University
Degree: Bachelor of Science and Engineering (May 2002)
Major: Computer Engineering
GPA: 3.54
Senior Project: A Nintendo emulator written in Java
Technical Skills
- REST
- Java
- Ruby on Rails
- MySQL
- HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- Unix
- Git/Subversion/CVS
- Perl
- much more!