# Aaron Maughan

> Senior Software Engineer at Best Buy Health

Location: San Diego, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aaronmaughan

A focused, curious, and adaptive full-stack Software Engineer that has a deep passion for Mathematics and Computer Science, a self-imposed vow to continuously learn, and a resolute desire to positively impact the planet (ideally via some application of AI/ML).  He currently brings over five years of experience in web and desktop application development, and over four years of experience in data engineering.

Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora), Windows
Clouds: Azure, AWS
IDEs/Tools: VSCode, Visual Studio, Intellij, DataGrip, SSMS, R Studio
Languages: C#, Python, SQL, Linux Kernel/Shell Scripting, Cypher, Scala, Java, R, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, JSX, CSS, C/C++, MATLAB, LaTeX, XAML, JSON, XML/XSL
Frameworks:.NET, .NET Core, Spark, ASP.NET WebAPI, React, Angular/AngularJS, Kafka Connect, ASP.NET MVC, WPF MVVM, Bootstrap, Moq, Microsoft Bot Framework V4, Json.NET
Azure Services: Databricks, Event Hubs, Service Fabric, SQL, Key Vault, PostgreSQL, CosmosDB
AWS Services: EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, Lambda, Quicksight
Business Intelligence & Data: Sisense, AWS Quicksight, Jupyter, Pandas
Application Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins
RDBMS: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Snowflake
Monitoring & Insights: LogEntries, New Relic, Datadog
Other: GIT, DBT, RESTful/GraphQL Web APIs, Postman, Serilog, Log4j, Jenkins, SBT, SOAs, Windows Services

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Best Buy Health
Jan 2023 – Present

### Backend Data Engineer @ Horizon3.ai
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Aided in the maturation and management of the systems and services responsible for the processing of completed pentest test data from NodeZero, Horizon3.ai’s proprietary automated penetration testing platform.
● Curated a custom segmented regression model to predict how long a given penetration test’s post-processing should take, which achieved a median error of less than two minutes over production data, as of March 2023.
● Authored a post-processing ETL Python module that was able to both generate and upload over 800 PNG images in less than 60 seconds into AWS S3 utilizing the Pillow Python library.
● Optimized multiple pre-existing post-processing ETL Python modules by introducing parallel processing of data in obvious areas of sequential execution.
- Technologies used daily: Python PipEnv, PostgreSQL, Git, Ansible, Gitlab, Datadog, Terraform, Log4j
- AWS Services used daily: EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, Lambda, Quicksight

### Software Engineer II, Data/Analytics Team @ Seismic Software
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater San Diego Area
Aided in the maturation and management of Seismic’s analytics infrastructure, which is responsible for surfacing analytics and reporting data to 1,500+ customers worldwide, across millions of users (4.4+).
● Witnessed a significant evolution/re-architecture of the platform’s entire reporting infrastructure.
● One of two key engineers in the initial development and subsequent re-architecture of Seismic’s reporting ETL pipeline. Currently moving data from 1500+ operational SqlServer databases (typically 1-3 per tenant/customer).
● Designed, implemented, and subsequently maintained Seismic's GDPR Compliance over its analytics and reporting data.
● Performed the roles and responsibilities of a Data Analyst while the team's only Data Analyst went on parental leave. Designed 10+ dashboards over ~7 months - all of which, are still in use.
● Aided in the design of the Data Analyst interview problems.
● Interviewed multiple Data Analyst candidates.
● Became a "owner" of a critical platform microservice responsible for seamlessly integrating the core Seismic platform with Seismic's BI vendor (Sisense).
● Underwent multiple Data Quality initiatives where all development stopped until we met a separately defined SLO.
- Technologies used daily: Spark, Kafka, .NET Core, ASP.NET WebAPI, Snowflake, SqlServer, Ansible, Git, SBT, Jenkins, Logentries, New Relic, Terraform, Json.NET, Serilog, Log4j, Hangfire
- Azure Services used daily: Databricks, Event Hubs, Service Fabric, SQL, PostgreSQL, CosmosDB, Key Vault

### Software Developer @ VCA
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles
Aided in the design, construction, debugging, and testing of VCA's proprietary hospital management Windows desktop application, Woofware, and VCA’s proprietary cloud-hosted hospital inventory management system, Inventory.
●	Provided end-to-end development of features in Woofware, from concept and design through full implementation and testing.
●	Effectively doubled the functionality and size of Inventory, which has accelerated the adoption of the system across Canada.
●	Technologies used daily: .NET, ASP.NET MVC/WebAPI, Angular, AngularJS, Insight ORM, Unity, WPF MVVM

### Software Engineer @ Centerfield Media
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | El Segundo, CA
Aided in the construction, design, debugging, documentation, and testing of Centerfield Media's internally used web applications whose primary focuses were to optimize their adwords bids from Google, Yahoo, and Bing. 
●	Technologies used daily: .NET, ASP.NET MVC, React, JQuery, Moq

### Software Engineer Intern @ Centerfield Media
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Wrote all of the unit tests for and shadowed in the development of Centerfield Media’s internally used web applications.

### Math Tutor @ College of the Canyons
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Tutored 500+ students up to multivariable calculus and linear algebra.
Tutored 40+ students with special needs.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computational Mathematics
UCLA
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Statistics
UCLA
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aaronmaughan

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Last updated: 2026-03-22