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Aaron Ss

@aaronss

I build reliable cloud platforms, Kubernetes operations, and automated delivery systems at scale.

At Telnyx, I lead platform and DevOps engineering for customer-facing real-time communications infrastructure, setting Kubernetes, Terraform, release, and incident-response standards used by multiple engineering teams.

I've reduced provisioning time by about 80% through reusable Terraform modules and increased deployment frequency 5x by reworking delivery around ArgoCD and GitHub Actions GitOps workflows. I also unified telemetry across Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and CloudWatch, reducing MTTD by 60% and MTTR by about 45%.

Previously at Kentik, I operated Kubernetes-based AWS production environments for a network-observability SaaS platform. I introduced SLI, SLO, and error-budget practices, reduced cloud costs by about 20%, and strengthened monitoring, incident workflows, and release automation.

Across Gremlin and Loka, I automated AWS and Azure infrastructure, built containerized production environments, improved resilience testing, and replaced manual Linux and deployment work with Terraform, Python, Bash, and CI/CD workflows. I also mentor engineers on Kubernetes operations, infrastructure reviews, on-call readiness, and post-incident follow-through.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead DevOps Engineer

Current

Telnyx

Aug 2023 - Present (3 years 1 month)

Directed platform and DevOps engineering across customer-facing real-time communications infrastructure, setting Kubernetes, Terraform, release, and incident-response standards. Standardized reusable Terraform modules and GitOps workflows, cutting provisioning time by ~80% and increasing deployment frequency by 5x.

AWS Kubernetes Terraform ArgoCD GitHub Actions GitOps Prometheus Grafana Datadog Cloudwatch Vault Trivy Snyk CI CD Incident Response Mentorship

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Kentik

Dec 2019 - Jul 2023 (3 years 7 months)

Operated Kubernetes-based AWS production environments for a network-observability SaaS platform, balancing service availability, deployment velocity, and infrastructure efficiency. Introduced SLI/SLO and error-budget practices and reduced cloud costs by ~20% through autoscaling and capacity planning.

AWS Kubernetes SRE SLOs Error Budgets AutoScaling Capacity Planning CI CD Monitoring Alerting Incident Management

DevOps Engineer

Gremlin

Jul 2017 - Nov 2019 (2 years 4 months)

Automated infrastructure provisioning and deployment workflows across AWS and Azure using Terraform, Python, and Bash, reducing manual operations by ~70%. Built containerized production environments with Docker and Kubernetes and implemented deployment validation and automated rollback mechanisms.

AWS Azure Terraform Python BASH Docker Kubernetes CI CD Monitoring Logging Alerting Resiliency

Junior Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Loka

Jun 2015 - Jun 2017 (2 years)

Provisioned AWS development and production environments with Terraform and CloudFormation, reducing environment setup and deployment time by ~50%. Automated Linux administration and deployment tasks with Python and Bash, and implemented CloudWatch monitoring and ELK-based logging.