Aron Hoekstra

Senior Consultant / Principal Developer (StarfishETL)

Aron joined TAI in 2005 and was involved in projects requiring heavy development, specializing in Windows and .NET programming. In 2009, Aron began focusing on larger integration projects and was integral in the development of integration and migration solution and sister company, Starfish. As demand for Starfish grew, Aron transitioned to supporting and improving Starfish full time, now acting as Senior Consultant & Principal Developer for the solution. Aron's interests include spending time with his family, grooming his 6 poodles, raising chickens, woodworking, building robotics & drones, brewing beer and restoring vintage computers. He hopes one day to build and fly his own homebuilt airplane.

Recent Contributions

Press Release

Send And Receive Text Messages With Starfish ETL

November 11, 2015

Using our new Twilio connector, you can use Starfish ETL to orchestrate the sending and receiving of text (SMS) messages. You can also send and receive picture (MMS) messages! Starfish can retrieve messages that are sent to your Twilio number and from there the possibilities are endless. Open…

Press Release

Use Your File System Like a Data Source

August 11, 2014

New with the latest release of Starfish ETL, you can now treat the files on your hard drive like a data source. Have you ever had to migrate attachments that were simply stored in a structured folder system with no other information? The new File System connector will allow you to set a folder…

Blog

Manage StarfishETL Programmatically

April 17, 2012

One of the benefits of StarfishETL is that it's Engine (where all the magic happens) is Web-services based. This means not only can StarfishETL itself run in the cloud, but you can control it programmatically through it's SOAP interface.

Blog

Upload Bulk Attachments to SugarCRM

November 1, 2011

Using the latest StarfishETL, you can easily upload or migrate your attachments to an On-Demand SugarCRM instance by using the new Base64 conversion functions.

Blog

StarfishETL Connector SDK Now Available

October 26, 2011

We've created a plugin framework to allow the creation of custom Connectors for use within StarfishETL™. The SDK is available free of charge and may be used StarfishETL version 2.3+.