Aaron Summers

Independent Systems & AI Consultant

High-end cloud architecture, server tuning, critical-incident recovery, and modern data engineering for global clients. 140+ Upwork engagements with a perfect 5.0/5.0 feedback rating.

AI Data Pipeline & Serverless Warehousing (2025–2026)

• Engineered a serverless data catalog pipeline (Python, BeautifulSoup, requests) to scrape, parse, and clean investigative articles.
• Structured extracted data into Apache Parquet tables, deployed to Hugging Face Datasets for serverless hosting.
• Built an interactive search/query dashboard in Gradio, with custom DNS (ALIAS/CNAME) records to serve the app securely on DigitalOcean.

Cloud Infrastructure & Migrations (AWS EC2 / VPS)

• Architected high-availability Linux cloud servers (WHM/cPanel, Concrete5 CMS, optimized PHP).
• Migrated legacy dedicated servers to scalable VPS environments (CentOS/RHEL).

Critical System Recovery & Administration

• Resolved emergency outages: JBOSS crashes, Plesk/cPanel conflicts, RAID recovery on FreeBSD.
• Configured Snort IDS and hardened network boundaries.

UNIX Engineer — E Solutions Corporation

Supported a Tier-1 collocation facility; administered OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows daily. Resolved network/host security vulnerabilities and stabilized the bandwidth billing system.

UNIX System Engineer — Hilton Grand Vacations (HGVC)

Single onsite operations lead for HP-UX, Solaris, FreeBSD, macOS X, and Linux. Designed a custom Enterprise Data Warehouse (RHEL, IBM Information Server, Sun N1). Built the company's external web presence on Solaris 10 (Sun T2000, Zones, ZFS, hardware RAID). Authored automation tooling in Perl, C, and Bourne shell.

UNIX Administrator — Vortech, Inc.

UNIX Administration & Support — Magna Computer Corp

UNIX System Administrator & Network Engineer — Independent Consultant

Implemented OpenBSD/Linux/Windows servers in colocation centers; built web app servers from scratch (Apache, Perl, PHP, MySQL); wrote terminal utilities in C/ncurses/GTK/X11.

Second Level Support — Jobwarehouse

Education

• Valencia Community College — Computer Science & Systems Study (1996–1998, 2000–2002)
• Winter Park High School — Gifted Academic Program (1992–1996)