Curriculum Vitae

I'm Aaron Oman, a software craftsman hailing from British Columbia, Canada.

I've been a software professional since 2005, with my roots in game development.

My interest is in systems programming. I'm particularly interested in GC-less environments like C, C++, Zig and Odin. Go is an acceptable compromise for high level programming where performance is not important.

You can contact me for anything not professionally related at groovestomp@groovestomp.com.

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Professional Summary

Mogo Feb 2021 - Present
- Devops Engineer
  Developer tools and infrastructure support
  Kubernetes, AWS
- Senior Software Developer and Devops Engineer
  Application development, tools and infrastructure
  Go, Ruby, RabbitMQ, MySQL, AWS
Commit Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Staff Engineer
Infrastructure tools development
Go, Bash, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
Mogo Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
Senior Software Developer
Application development, tools and infrastructure
Go, Ruby, RabbitMQ, MySQL, AWS
Lendesk Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
- Senior Software Developer
  Application development and tools
  Go, Elixir, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Ruby on Rails, AWS
- Team Lead (10 months)
  1:1s, sprint planning, ticket grooming, team management, hiring
Mogo Oct 2014 - Aug 2017
Senior Software Developer
Application development, tools and infrastructure
Go, Ruby, RabbitMQ, MySQL, AWS
Unbounce Mar 2011 - Oct 2014
Software Developer
API design, implementation and documentation
Devops infrastructure and tooling
Application development
Go, Ruby, RabbitMQ, MySQL, AWS
Java, Javascript, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, AWS
Gossamer Threads Oct 2007 - Jun 2009
Software Developer
Site installations and customization of proprietary software
Application development
MySQL, Perl, PHP, Apache
Electronic Arts Jun 2005 - Sep 2007, Feb 2010 - Feb 2011
- Associate Developer
  Frontend gameplay modes FIFA 11
  ActionScript, C++
- Associate Developer
  Graphics pipelines
  Audio pipelines
  Animation programming
  Frontend
  Build automation
  ActionScript, C++, C#, Perl

Accomplishments & Events

2021 - Resumption of GameBoy emulator project.
2021 - Commitment to C++ for personal projects.
2021 - Recommitment to pure software development for future career moves.
2021 - Switched to permanent full-time devops role
2021 - Returned to Mogo as split devops/developer
2020 - Joined Commit as full-time devops (Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)
2019 - Started programming in Zig and Odin
2019 - Wrote CHIP-8 and NES emulators
2019 - Returned to Mogo
2019 - Stepped back into an IC role
2018 - Promoted to Team Lead at Lendesk
2017 - Joined Lendesk as a Senior Software Developer (Ruby/Go)
2016 - Started programming in Go
2015 - Started programming in C (primarily C99)
2014 - Joined Mogo as a Senior Software Developer (Ruby)
2011 - Joined Unbounce as the first employee (Ruby)
2010 - Returned to EA as a junior front-end software developer (ActionScript)
2007 - Joined Gossamer Threads as a full stack web developer (Perl/Javascript)
2007 - Started programming in Perl
2007 - Started using GNU/Linux for development and minor system administration
2005 - Joined EA as a junior software developer (C++)
2005 - Earned Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
2000 - Started programming in C++
1998 - Started programming in Pascal and using HTML/Javascript