ABOUT
About Me
Technologist, language enthusiast, student private pilot, and lifelong learner.
I'm Aaron Drysdale, a father of four girls, and someone with a real passion for learning. I'm an engineer at heart - I love learning how to use new technology to make my life more useful. And ... just ... why not? I tinker with Home Assistant and implement home automation; I write software for the love of it; and I enjoy picking up a soldering iron to build real-world useful devices.
Outside of technology I'm passionate about learning Spanish, traveling (I want to visit every country in Latin America eventually), studying for my private pilot license, and whatever else catches my attention. My family acuse me of jumping from one interest to another, but I just love learning! If you want to discuss anything I've written about, feel free to contact me on LinkedIn.
Experience
Invenco
I have a love for talking to people to understand what problems they facing, and thinking about how we can solve them using technology. I am also drawn to finding ways to enhance our products to help solve real world problems.
Solution Architect · 2023 – Present
Gilbarco
Moved to Dubai, and traveled Africa and Middle East helping customers adopt our technology in the retail fueling space. Then moved to the US to manage a POS product development team and eventually product manager for payment devices.
Engineering Manager, Product Manager · Aug 2009 – 2022
Provenco
Helped customers understand how to use our products, and how our R&D teams should develop our products to make customers happy. This was an amazing opportunity to develop new technology and travel a lot to talk to customers.
Product Manager · 2003 – Aug 2009
PEC
Wrote POS and Back Office software using Delphi, COM and a lot of ancient technology by today's standards. PEC operated in the southern hemisphere manufacturing fuel pumps and developing Point of Sale equipment for petrol stations.
Software Engineer · 1997 – 2003
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