Aaron Colichia

Senior SDET with 20+ years building Python test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and Linux-based release tooling for enterprise storage, information governance, and infrastructure products. Career spans hands-on test automation, build and release engineering, and full ownership of distributable Linux platforms for on-premise customer deployment.

• Test automation: Python, PyUnit, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, page object model frameworks, CLI and API test design.
• CI/CD and platforms: Jenkins pipelines, Git, Docker, Packer, Vagrant, Ansible, and Linux platform ownership.
• Storage and infra: iDRAC tooling, RAID (PERC), NVMe, SEKM flows, Elasticsearch, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
• Engineering judgment: reproducible builds, hardened defaults, field-aligned coverage, and mentoring.

Between full-time roles since April 2024, focused on personal infrastructure and Linux platform work:

• Chartreuse Linux: a Linux distribution built on glibc, s6, and xbps with serial-LTS design goals, transactional Btrfs-based updates, and a packaged service architecture built on upstream s6 components.
• hardened-linux-host: Ansible-based configuration baseline for hardening Linux servers; used for self-hosted git, web, and code-mirror infrastructure.
• Continuing professional development through self-directed coursework in cybersecurity and systems programming.

• Dell, 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.
• IBM / StoredIQ, CI/CD and platform: built and maintained the product CI toolchain and owned the Linux platform for four distributable VM images comprising the product stack.
• Distributable Elasticsearch cluster: designed a multi-node Elasticsearch image with stunnel-secured intra-node traffic and LUKS-encrypted storage as an alternative backend to PostgreSQL.
• Cloud expansion: automated deployment of the StoredIQ stack to AWS EC2 and IBM SoftLayer in addition to VMware targets.
• Framework growth: extended Python and Selenium page object model automation, and added Windows desktop automation for installation and Desktop Agent testing.