# Aron Gates

> Staff Engineer

Location: Greater Houston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/arongates

I am a results driven Staff Engineer with 9 years of experience. I've led teams and architected complex infrastructure solutions. I founded and led an SRE team, saving over $180,000 annually through efficient Terraform optimization. I developed cloud infrastructure for intensive geospatial data training, running thousands of parallel pipelines using Flyte, Dask, and GKE within a private network. I built infrastructure and CI/CD stacks from scratch using Terraform, Kubernetes, GCP, Istio, Grafana, Buildkite, and Kafka. I implemented fine-tuned security policies via Terraform and enabled rapid microservices deployment within 5 minutes using Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests. I've led large teams in delivering monolith-to-microservices redesigns at scale with Python, Kubernetes, Kafka, SQL, and Terraform.

## Work Experience
### Staff Site Reliability Engineer @ Muon Space
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Co-Founder @ Stohio Consulting LLC
Jan 2015 – Present | Stow, Ohio area
Cofounder of our Stohio code collaborative company.

### Staff Engineer @ Pachama
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024

### Senior Software Engineer @ Wayfair
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Boston Area
Leading a team of developers of the Creative Enablement department.

### CTO @ Omnicert
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
This app manages certifications and qualifications for its users, and allows
managers to view and manage data in an intuitive web dashboard. Managed a
team of 4 developers to build a full stack solution. Built the architecture
for the full stack, a react-native iOS and Android application with a
backend server and website. Deployed the application to Apple and Google
Play Store. Utilized Firebase, Heroku, AppCenter, Github, React-Native.

### Senior Engineer @ HungerPerks
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Completely restructured HungerPerk's entire mobile app design. Implemented a clean, fun design with a much better user experience. Delivered features over the course of the project to the admin's specifications.

### CTO and Co-founder @ Sqrl
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Kent, Ohio
This mobile application automatically connects students in their
classrooms with automatic group chats based on class enrollment. Managed
the innovation and development processes that aligned with release dates,
researching and initiating improvements that solidified requirements,
design, and implementation of essential software changes.

### Senior Engineer @ Speechify
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Speechify is an app that allows for easy text to speech. It is a platform that accelerates growth in the rate of hearing words per minute, as well as an easy solution for those that are dyslexic or hard-of-sight.

### Senior Engineer @ AvatarFleet
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | 1869 E Aurora Rd #300, Twinsburg, OH 44087
Managed the innovation and development processes that aligned with release dates, researching and initiating improvements that solidified requirements, design, and implementation of essential software changes.  Collaborated with multiple departments in approving project completion.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Kent State University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22