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Aron Bussey

@aronbussey

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Senior Data Platform Engineer building lakehouse analytics and resilient cloud platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to own end-to-end Data Lakehouse and platform engineering, building automated provisioning, CI/CD, and resilient Kubernetes operations—combining scalable Spark/Kafka data processing with strong security, observability, and delivery reliability.

I’m a Senior Data Platform Engineer with 10+ years of software engineering and 5+ years focused on data and platform engineering across enterprise environments. I design and operate modern Data Lakehouse systems, leading lakehouse architecture for structured and semi-structured workloads while improving scalability, consistency, and analytics readiness. I deliver automated provisioning with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, high-throughput ingestion with Apache Spark and Kafka, and Kubernetes-based operations with observability, recovery, and security hardening.

Previously, as a Platform Engineer, I built cloud-native infrastructure and Python automation to streamline deployments, testing, and release controls for production stability. Earlier, I worked as a Data Engineer and Software Engineer using Python/SQL, Apache Airflow orchestration, and distributed systems to build reliable ingestion, transformation, and analytics platforms.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Data Platform Engineer

Terakeet

Jan 2022 - Feb 2026 (4 years 1 month)

Owned the design and operation of enterprise data lakehouse systems, building scalable platform capabilities across distributed environments. Led lakehouse architecture, automated provisioning with infrastructure as code, and production CI/CD pipelines, while implementing ingestion/transformation workflows with Spark and Kafka, orchestration with Airflow, observability, and security controls.

Kubernetes Python Infrastructure as Code Apache Spark Apache Airflow Apache Kafka CI CD Pipelines Data Lakehouse Architecture Observability

Platform Engineer

Checkly

Oct 2018 - Nov 2021 (3 years 1 month)

Contributed to scalable cloud-native platform engineering for enterprise data-intensive applications and operational services. Built infrastructure deployment frameworks with infrastructure as code and Kubernetes, implemented Python automation and CI/CD pipelines, and supported data integration and analytics platforms using Kafka and distributed processing.

Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code Python CI CD Pipelines Apache Kafka Relational Databases Apache Spark Observability Platform Operations

Data Engineer

SynapOne

Jun 2016 - Aug 2018 (2 years 2 months)

Designed and maintained enterprise data processing solutions using Python and SQL to support analytics and operational reporting. Built ingestion and transformation pipelines, orchestrated recurring workflows with Airflow, optimized relational database performance, and deployed/operated containerized services with Kubernetes while improving deployment consistency with automation.

Python SQL Apache Airflow Data Pipelines Data Ingestion SQL Optimization Kubernetes Workflow Orchestration Infrastructure Automation

Software Engineer

Ai2

Mar 2015 - May 2016 (1 year 2 months)

Contributed to large-scale, data-focused software initiatives involving distributed systems and analytics workflows. Developed backend services using Python and SQL, supported deployment automation and platform standardization, and helped build data processing solutions and scalable storage/processing frameworks while providing ongoing platform operations and improvements.

Python SQL Distributed Systems Service Oriented Architecture Backend Development REST APIs Microservices Production Support