About

Aaron Johnson is a highly experienced Senior Automation Engineer with a focus on Open Source solutions. He has over 15 years of relevant experience in the field and is currently working as a Senior Automation Engineer at CrowdStrike. Aaron is an expert in running production workloads using Open Source solutions and ensuring seamless releases with minimal downtime and error budget expense. Aaron's expertise lies in containers (Kubernetes, Docker), cloud platforms (Amazon, Google, OpenStack, etc.), SRE automation and integration (Python, Go), monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation best practices (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and Humio), high availability clustering and load balancing, configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Python, shell), and CI/CD best practices (GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, TravisCI, etc.). Aaron's past experiences include working as a DevOps Engineer III at Rackspace, the 1 managed cloud company, and as a Linux System Administrator at Computer Task Group. He has experience in Linux System Administration, Open Source technologies, Open Stack, etc. Aaron holds an Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) degree in Computer Support Specialist and Information Technology from Black Hawk College and Blackhawk College, Moline IL. He has a strong tech stack that includes CI/CD, Python, Ansible, Puppet, SRE, Kubernetes, Docker, Integration, and DevOps. Overall, Aaron is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Automation Engineer with a strong focus on Open Source solutions. He is passionate about ensuring seamless releases with minimal downtime and error budget expense, making him an asset to any organization.