Aaron Colichia

SDET / platform automation engineer focused on Python test automation, Linux platforms, CI/CD, storage/server infrastructure, release tooling, and security-oriented automation. Recent experience includes Dell Technologies and IBM roles spanning Python-driven CLI/API/UI test automation, Jenkins-based CI/CD, Linux release tooling, and infrastructure automation.

• Test automation: Python, PyUnit, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, REST/API and CLI test design, regression testing, system integration testing, and coverage gap analysis.
• CI/CD and infrastructure: Jenkins, Git, Docker, Packer, Vagrant, Ansible, Terraform, Artifactory, Nexus, infrastructure as code, and release/upgrade/install/patch tooling.
• Linux and platforms: RHEL, Linux system administration, Bash/Shell scripting, AWS EC2, VMware/vSphere, IBM SoftLayer, and Linux hardening.
• Storage/server work: iDRAC, PERC RAID, SEKM, NVMe, software RAID, NAS/SAN concepts, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, and Oracle.

Independent software engineering through Latebrum, with current work centered on consulting, cybersecurity coursework, Linux/security infrastructure projects, and LLM-assisted workflows for automation, documentation, and verification.

• hardened-linux-host: Ansible-based Linux host baseline for self-hosted infrastructure; automates repeatable host configuration and hardening for Gitolite, email, web, and code-mirror services.
• subocr: Go CLI that converts VobSub bitmap subtitles to SRT, VTT, ASS, and JSON using Tesseract/Leptonica OCR, with track/language selection, OCR tuning controls, and concurrency controls.
• Education in progress: B.S. in Cybersecurity candidate at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, expected 2027.

• Dell Technologies, iDRAC storage SME: owned Python CLI and API automation for PERC RAID, SEKM, NVMe, and software RAID features; improved shared Python test infrastructure to reduce flaky failures across storage regression suites.
• Dell Technologies, risk-based validation: identified coverage gaps, investigated complex failures, and drove defect triage with development and quality teams.
• IBM, CI/CD and platform: owned the product CI toolchain and the Linux platform for four distributable VM images comprising the product stack.
• IBM, release tooling: maintained install, upgrade, patch, and release tooling for customer-deployed Linux VM products across VMware, AWS EC2, and IBM SoftLayer targets.
• Distributable Elasticsearch cluster: designed a multi-node Elasticsearch image using CentOS, Chef, Packer, Docker, stunnel-secured intra-node traffic, and LUKS-encrypted storage as an alternative backend to PostgreSQL.

• Texas A&M University-San Antonio: B.S. in Cybersecurity candidate, expected 2027.
• Lamar State College-Port Arthur: Associate's degree, Computer Information Systems.
• Certifications: CompTIA Network+, Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), AWS Certified Developer - Associate.