Aaron Goss Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

My position with VMware as a Staff Engineer 1 continues with Broadcom after the acquisition completed in late 2023. Having transitioned to this new role, my responsibilities have shifted in some ways, and remained the same in others.I'm currently heading up a high-profile project serving our Aria Cloud customers. This role includes design, technical leadership, software development (primarily in Python and Bash) and facilitating communication across multiple groups (including core developers, product management, etc.). My team produced a functioning POC for our Product Managers within 8 days and continue development on a total solution.I continue in my role as the technical lead and primary designer/developer for an internal support service. This service has been used for over 8 years by multiple groups in our business unit, including Engineering Services, Global Support, Product Value Engineering, Service Reliability Engineering, and Core Development. This project is offered as a SaaS-based offering (running in AWS) as well as an on-prem (OVA) installation providing detailed analytics and insight into customer support bundles for various products.In short, our group offers internal teams an extensible platform which consumes product support bundles (i.e. archives generated by Broadcom/VMware products with support logs, configuration files, and data), and generates insightful and interactive health/problem status reports for our support users.Moreover, I'm responsible as an SRE for development and maintenance of other AWS-based microservices impacting our Aria Operations Cloud infrastructure. In this role, I work extensively with Go, Python, Terraform, Packer, and AWS. I have extensive experience automating, deploying, and maintaining cloud-based services in AWS.I continue in my Product Value Engineering role, providing our GS staff engineering assistance when troubleshooting product issues, providing escalation and resolution assistance.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

My previous position with VMware has been as an Operations Development engineer, working closely with our support group and customers, investigating immediate issues, and triaging customer installations. I also work with our organization to investigate, prioritize, and implement features for existing product, in accordance with customer needs. As an operations engineer, my work includes Java, Python, and extensive shell scripting (primarily Bash), working primarily with Linux systems.Accomplishments:* Designed and implemented Docker-based product analysis platform, executing utilities across a variety of languages/technologies for exposing defects in customer environment* Designed and implemented Kubernetes-based SaaS version of the same product analysis platform* Designed and implemented extensive Python-based troubleshooting library* Designed and implemented extensible Scala-based investigation utility for problematic installations* Designed and implemented features required by key customers for product enhancement

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Assumed primary responsibility for web-based API design and implementation for a major component of a large-scale telecommunications application. These responsibilities include design and implementation of REST and SOAP interfaces intended for partner integration. This endeavor makes extensive use of the Java Pluggable Annotation Processing API for generating source code to provide versionability for both REST and SOAP services.I've also designed, developed, and maintained an API testing framework in Python for our software test team to use for test automation. This framework provides testers the ability to write functional tests which operate agnostic of endpoint technologies (e.g. REST vs. SOAP) and data format (e.g. XML vs. JSON). The net result is a framework which can run the same functional tests against a REST/XML, REST/JSON, and SOAP API. This framework also provides technology-specific tools to write tests which will only run against certain technologies or formats.Assumed responsibility for migrating the code-base of our project from Clear Case and ANT to Subversion and Maven.

I'm the lead Flex developer of a KPI data visualization application for our enterprise solution. This includes work in Flex/ActionScript 3 and some Java. I'm also responsible for the build-process for our application, which entails both Java and Maven integration work.Accomplishments:* Introduced advanced layout management system for organizing and displaying charts* Integrated and leveraged Parsley for client-side logging feature, increasing supportability of existing application* Refactored end-to-end data flow in existing application to streamline performance as well as reducing coupling* Introduced advanced charting types and displays for data analysis in charting application* Implemented Java-based IPv6 parsing library for use in large scale data-management system

* RIA development in Flex 3 - Advanced data visualization components for rich interactions and display - Cross-application architecture and integration in Flex* Responsible for Application Build Environment - Built continuous integration framework for Flex project using FlexUnit, Maven, and Java - Supported shared-library builds using Continuum and Maven

* Software Quality Assurance for VoIP and Network Analysis Product* Test strategy development and execution, including integration, functional, component, and solution testing

Manufacturing and quality control for electrical engineering firm.