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Aaron Ball

software and reliability engineering at scale

€1,600/day
Leiden, NL
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Aaron

I enjoy large scale, diverse and deep problems, from genome sequencing to internet infrastructure to high-frequency trading. I'm seeking a variety of consequential work, and benefit from direct engagement with the people my work is affecting or with metrics that closely reflect their experience.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Dutch

    Basic

  • French

    Basic

  • German

    Basic

  • Spanish

    Basic

Can work on-site
Leiden (up to 50km), Amsterdam (up to 10km), The Hague (up to 10km)

Experience

  • Appalachia B.V.
    Consultant
    December 2023 - Today (2 years and 5 months)
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Independent consulting for software projects, with a focus on scalability, reliability, observability, and security.
  • Jane Street Capital
    Infrastructure Engineer, Core Services
    January 2021 - May 2023 (2 years and 4 months)
    New York, NY, USA
    Reliability engineering and systems support for high-frequency trading.

    • Developed, maintained, and managed software lifecycle for infrastructure monitoring and configuration tools (OCaml, Golang, Python, SNMP, Prometheus, Grafana)
    • Led time synchronization & MiFID II compliance reporting effort for O(10k) hosts globally with microsecond precision (NTP, PTP, GPS appliance & radio troubleshooting, Chrony, C)
  • NS8
    Senior Software Architect
    August 2019 - September 2020 (1 year)
    Las Vegas, United States
    Led design for scaling, observability, and reliability engineering for ecommerce fraud-prevention app. (Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Honeycomb, Prometheus, AWS, Terraform, GitHub, CI/CD)

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Education

  • Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
    UMass/Boston
    2008

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