Aaron Turner
Principal Software Engineer at Proofpoint
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorAaron Turner is a Principal Software Engineer in San Jose with 24 years of experience building resilient, secure systems and platform automation for large SaaS and enterprise customers. He specializes in AWS, Linux, networking and security, and has led major IaC transformations—moving organizations from click-ops to Terraform-driven pipelines and company-wide AWS SSO automation. His work spans high-scale malware sandboxing, stateful IP rotation strategies, and building control-plane infrastructure for managed cloud services serving F100/F1000 customers. Aaron mentors engineering teams to reduce cognitive load across the SDLC and has driven cross-functional security and operations initiatives that became company standards. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the cloudtools/stacker orchestration tool with selective stack toggles and a diffing CLI to improve deployment confidence. Less obvious: he combines deep systems-level expertise from Linux kernel and appliance engineering with modern cloud architecture, enabling pragmatic solutions across both hardware and cloud-native domains.
24 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (20)
python10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
aac10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
cicd9
cli8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
git7
tcpdump6
checksum6
timestamp6
android6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
cloudtools/stacker
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
An AWS CloudFormation Stack orchestrator/manager.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:20 commits, 11 PRs, 19 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on enhancing the `cloudtools/stacker` project's functionality related to infrastructure management and deployment. They implemented an "enabled" flag for CloudFormation stacks, allowing for selective deployment based on configuration. They introduced support for AWS CloudFormation List<> types within Stacker templates. They also added a "diff" command to the CLI, providing a way to compare changes between the current deployment and proposed changes.
aws-cloudformationpythoncloudformationdevops
synfinatic/teensy-dsc
Sep 2014 - May 2018
Contributions:119 commits, 35 pushes, 2 tags in 3 years 8 months
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