Aaron Levy Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

London, Gb

- Worked on the DevOps team for a product used by over 10-million users every year - Maintained an internal deployment tool for ASP.NET applications- Managed several Build, CI, and Deployment environments across both Linux and Windows hosts- Developed and managed tools for simplified management of 50+ production hosts- Worked on the TFS to Git conversion of several projects- Redesigned deployment systems and strategies to reduce application deployment time by 50%- Designed a system to route alerts from Zenoss to HipChat using PagerDuty for monitoring purposes- Developed a self-service tool to manipulate F5 Big-IP load balancer pools, enabling team members to easily enable or disable nodes from serving production traffic- Developed a system to post SQL Server health information to HipChat for monitoring purposes

London, Gb

- Worked on the QA team for a product used by over 10-million users every year- Performed release testing for over 8 production releases- Personally coordinated the resolution of SQL database issues affecting thousands of users- Personally worked with the software engineering team to develop more accurate and efficient ways to test the product- Served as the first ever MathXL QA Engineer to work with the product's source code to incorporate white-box, as well as black-box testing- Designed a suite of improvements to Jenkins CI to increase accountability as well as usability- Wrote Java code for automated browser testing using an internal fork of Selenium WebDriver as well as TestNG- Helped train new developers and QA Engineers and re-wrote technical documentation- Developed a fork of an ASP.NET MVC Password Management application for Active Directory to eliminate the need to engage support teams for internal password resets- Learned basic Objective-C and wrote a Proof-of-Concept app using Google's J2ObjC tool

San Francisco, California, Us

- Worked on an internal orchestration engine “Gigantor” for an infrastructure of tens of thousands of hosts- Modified configuration to support the simultaneous operation of two separate clusters, improve the speed of intra-app communication, and allow for a system failover- Designed a new load balancing architecture which modified our SSL termination strategy to fully decouple each cluster from a specific VIP- Developed a fully-automated system for performing an A/B-style release of Gigantor applications, achieving zero downtime releases and reducing the release time across ~20 data centers by over 75% - Designed a new credential delegation architecture using Kerberos tickets that will reduce the attack surface of Gigantor by over 80%- Improved my team’s SDLC with the introduction of Git feature-branch development and pull requests, as well as build information injection into each application package

• Supported the needs of the World Language Department, both technological and educational• Improved test grading efficiency by over 50% by orchestrating the implementation of a new online assessment system• Increased sales by over 25% for a citrus fundraiser by implementing an online e-commerce system• Successfully implemented “Rosetta Stone Classroom” language-learning solutions• Analyzed learner progress using “Rosetta Stone Manager” and Excel to illustrate ROI to stakeholders• Coordinated a pilot of a new Rosetta Stone software product• Met with both corporate and internal stakeholders regarding program requirements and product development• Conducted extensive testing to identify local network communication issues and worked with internal IT team to configure appropriate firewall exceptions• Collaborated on an official case study regarding the Rosetta Stone pilot’s success• Developed a new at-scale user integration model that reduced manual data entry by over 30 hours

Washington, Dc, Us

- Managed social media presence for the group- Launched a "Why Do I Speak Spanish?" video campaign using Facebook and Tout- Created and managed targeted advertising campaigns using demographic segmentation- Analyzed page insights and other data to help improve campaign effectiveness

Rochester, Ny, Us

- Served on a focus group to help re-design RIT’s first year transition course- Organize and promote events for first-year students to attend- Assisted students with transitioning to college life both in and out of the classroom- Worked with instructors to develop effective and engaging lesson plans