Aaron Menezes

Improved efficiency in CI/CD pipelines by automating database migrations through modification of GitHub workflows, Dockerfiles, and environment variables Significantly improved email scalability for large email operations by migrating existing email infrastructure to Amazon SES Deployed Nuxt based web applications with automated CI/CD pipelines to Amazon EC2 to ensure maintainable cloud deployments

Junior Systems Engineer - NPTS - Richardson, Texas

(2025-08)

• Improved efficiency in CI/CD pipelines by automating database migrations through modification of GitHub workflows, Dockerfiles, and environment variables
• Significantly improved email scalability for large email operations by migrating existing email infrastructure to Amazon SES
• Deployed Nuxt based web applications with automated CI/CD pipelines to Amazon EC2 to ensure maintainable cloud deployments
• Reduced costs of deployed projects by at least 50% per project by finding alternative infrastructure solutions within AWS
• Introduced reliable file storage mechanism to allow deployed projects to manage user uploaded files
• Improved scalability and maintainability of infrastructure by migrating manual deployments to terraform managed infrastructure

Project Mentor - UTDesign EPICS - Richardson, Texas

(2026-01 - 2026-05)

• Lead a project developing software for the McKinney Public Library Foundation
• On-boarded and served as a mentor for a new team of developers, ensuring they had the resources they needed to be productive
• Implemented Agile methodologies to ensure quick development and prototyping of software
• Coordinated a major refactor of the codebase to alleviate tech debt and increase maintainability of the project

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science - University of Texas at Dallas (2022-08 - 2026-05)