AWS Certifications


Rate
$170 - $195 per hourProfessional experience
Summary 8 years experience designing, implementing, and maintaining complex applications; including mobile backends, image processing pipelines, high-performance computing (including deep learning training + prediction), text processing, and business analytics. Comfortable orchestrating 20+ cloud services into complex web applications with multiple frontends and programmatic interfaces. Strong background in mathematics, logic, and design.
Education
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Bucknell University
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Roles Founder and CTO at Artmix, Inc.
- Designed, implemented, and maintained the entire cloud application with an SPA/webapp client.
- Designed implemented the rendering engine, which is capable of executing hundreds of thousands of daily AI predictions on images. Created a simple, attractive interface for interacting with the rendering service.
- Used AWS’ elastic pricing model to enable an extremely competitive business model with no upfront capital investment in technology, leading to a deep understanding of the intersection between cloud technologies and business advantages.
Electrical and Software R&D Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
- Lead an innovative R&D product design project for an IoT / connected device. Designed and implemented the sensor firmware, real-time backend control system, and real-time web clients.
- Hardware design and testing for low-power connected devices
Software Developer at Vuescape, Inc.
- Developed web and android clients for a video streaming platform.
- Integrated these clients with a backend that was hosted on multiple cloud service providers, including AWS.
Design Philosophy
- Know how to use each of the available services, but only use the ones you need. Keep it simple.
- Use managed services initially but design for / plan to move to custom solutions when you reach the limits of the managed services.
- Keep “vendor lock in” in mind, but if a service provides excellent value, use it to its fullest!
Service grouped by category
- CloudFormation, CDK
- EC2, Lambda, ECS, Fargate
- API Gateway, AppSync
- AWS IoT services
- Amplify
- VPC Networking, ControlTower, SSO, GuardDuty, SecurityHub, multi-account deployments
- S3, Cloudfront
- AWS Transfer for SFTP
- Client VPN
- EventBridge
- ECR, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, CodeBuild
- RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB
- Cognito
- IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS
- Step Functions, SNS, SQS
- Rekognition, Transcribe, Translate, Textract
Languages
- Typescript/Javascript (expert)
- Java/Android (expert)
- Matlab (expert)
- C (intermediate)
- Python (intermediate)
- Go (learning)
Hoola Labs Reviews
Aidan patiently guided us to the solution we needed. His expertise is unmatched and exactly what we required. We would work with him again in a heartbeat!
Excellent work.
Aidan researched and proposed various approaches to architecting a solution for a fairly complex requirement I had involving scaling websocket servers in a unique way. Each approach had its trade-offs and this was presented clearly. He even provided a PoC for each approach in CDK. Highly recommended.
Excellent Service and Communication
I started working with Aidan and Hoola labs almost one year ago. They have provided tremendous value for my business by listening to my specific situation and finding thoughtful solutions for my technical and commerical requirements. Extremely knowledgeable and will continue to work with them going forward.
Excellent, patient advice and information. Exactly what we needed!
Great experience working with Aidan, he was very prompt in his communication and efficient in his work. He was able to port our Amplify services over to CDK very quickly and professionally, and we defintely will not hesitate to reach out to him in case we need any further backend support.
Great help. Aidan is a real Amplify expert, as well as a great and patient communicator.
Incredibly deep knowledge; flexible and willing to find answers; highly responsive and quick to understand the situation from a technical and business level.
Excellent work as always...
We were able to troubleshoot a network connectivity issue that my team struggled with for several days in just under 20 minutes. Aiden was clear-headed and helped get to the bottom of the issue quickly.
Knowledgable and helpful.
very professional and knows what he is doing. i would highly recommend!
Aidan has been a great help to our team. He came in and quickly familiarized himself with our tech stack, suggesting improvements while being very conscious of following existing conventions. Drawing on his extensive experience, he was instrumental in delivering our project on time and within budget. We'll be continuing to work with Aidan to follow up on a number of improvements at his suggestion.
Aidan was the perfect coach and architect for my needs as an early stage start-up founder trying to launch from 0.
Aidan is brilliant, friendly, meticulous, an effective communicator and has produced excellent results for us in the time planned. As future needs arise, we will definitely look to work with Aidan again.
Fantastic engineer to work with. Exceptional communication throughout the entire process and extremely knowledgable about the AWS platform and services. Aidan was quick to help us with a GCP migration and point us in the right direction for next steps. We look forward to working with Aidan again.
Thoughtful, knowledgable, reliable. Did highly customized work attending to our needs and our application. We enthusiastically recommend Aidan and we are grateful for his work.
Aidan was very helpful and went above and beyond. Highly recommend.
Aidan is terrific to work with and his approach not only resolved our critical issue, but set us up for future success. We are a tiny understaffed non-profit and, at a very critical moment, our tools tools started failing due to an issue deep in the system. Aidan kindly and methodically found the underlying issue (documenting as he went) and devised a low-impact way to resolve it and get the system running again. We look forward to working with him again on more strategic tech projects as well.
Aidan has done a fantastic job for our company. He's organized, efficient, and writes beautiful documentation.
Very patient, professional, and knowledgeable. Works with you on your level. This is what working with an expert should be like
Aidan went above and beyond our expectations. What started out as a simple request turned out to be more complicated. We ran into some unexpected issues and he was able to step through a solution to the issues and educate us on the process he used so we can better maintain our systems. Highly recommend, look forward to working with him in the future.
Aidan was great to work with and will certainly work with him again in the future.
Aidan has been a stellar help with helping me setup my AWS infrastructure. He was quick to grasp the requirements and ready to improvise when we ran into limitations. He also meticulously documented all his work so it would be easy for me to pick it up when he was finished. Great help and would highly recommend to others.
Aidan provided me extra advice all along the process allowing my CI/CD and developer onboarding process to be improved, it was a great outcome overall. Thanks to him
Fast and efficient solution to my problem. Easy to work with and very knowledgeable.
Aidan was extremely knowledgeable of the AWS services we required. Additionally, as we are a startup company, Aidan was very patient with our young team and helped to make recommendations that would be in the best interest of our growing company. His work was timely, thoughtful and extremely well-organized. I would highly recommend Aidan for any of your AWS needs.
Aidan was fantastic to work with and integrated seamlessly with my team. He's very intelligent and knows how to ask the right questions of stakeholders.
Aiden was exceptional. He was able to help me setup automated deployments with CodePipline. I highly recommend this expert.