Eurydice Group
Founder, Owner, CEO
June 2024 - Present
Detroit, Michigan, United States

Eurydice Group is a Detroit metro area agency focused on bringing easy to understand value from a web presence to our fellow local small businesses. As the owner of the firm, Aaron has a focus on the creation and maintenance of high-quality, up-to-date, secure websites and internet presences for small businesses. He offers basic packages that cover everything most companies need to leave a positive impression on digital natives and reach those additional customers who prefer to do as much online as they can.

Riverfront Condominum Association
Treasurer
Mar 2024 - Present
Detroit, Michigan, United States

The Riverfront Condominium Association is a 29-story residential condominium high-rise on the Detroit river near downtown. As treasurer, Aaron provides oversight and direction for the use of our unit owners' collective funds, and advises the board of directors on financial matters.

B.O.R. of Northern Detroit
Founder, Owner, CEO
Oct 2023 - Present
Detroit, Michigan, United States

B.O.R. of Northern Detroit is a premium water, fire and mold mitigation company serving the Oakland, Macomb and northern half of Wayne county in Michigan.

TeraSense
Senior Software Engineer
Apr 2023 - Oct 2023
Detroit, Michigan, United States

As a senior dev on a newly-assembled team, Aaron concurrently made individual contributions to their Golang and React codebases and provided mentorship and advice to other team members in pursuit of the team's mission. They established multiple components of a microservice that will replace a legacy, and unsupported, mission-critical build infrastructure tool. The team also designed numerous features with the specific intention of enabling far greater capabilities than any legacy tools offered.

Pathrise
Lead Software Developer
Jun 2022 - Apr 2023
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Leader of the development team at Pathrise. As lead engineer, Aaron managed their developers as well as providing architectural and strategic guidance to the CTO and other leadership to achieve their mission, which has already empowered thousands of job seekers to find more satisfying and higher-paying jobs.
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● Guided feature development and releases, including exploration of automated job application, a new job seeker experience, and an internal performance measurement and rating system
● Helped coach leadership on technical possibilities and set strategy to include automation features initially assumed impossible
● Coached engineers on the use and development of numerous technologies, including Docker, Google’s Developer APIs, Ruby on Rails, build and CICD systems, and others
● Established standards for peer reviews of code, expectations for QAing stories, and similar engineering processes

Workforce Software
Technical Lead
Apr 2019 - May 2022
Livonia, Michigan, United States
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Technical Lead for the Absence chapter at Workforce Software. As tech lead, Aaron guided two teams of developers by managing day to day activities. He was responsible for overseeing and signing off on architecture for all products within the Absence domain, managing expectations and communications with external stakeholders, guiding internal and external Product staff with estimates and feedback on direction, and ultimately owning the successful functionality of all Absence domain code and issues.
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● Led the transition to internal, domain-grouped chapters for Absence
● Oversaw the design and development of our transition from a monolithic Java Springboot App to amicroservice, React + NodeJS + Java Springboot + Apache Kafka architecture
● Led efforts to enable us to scale Absence services to handle traffic that increased from 50k to 500kusers.

Southern Methodist University
Adjunct Faculty
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Dallas, Texas
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Taught CSE 1341, Introduction to the Principles of Computer Science (functionally Intro to Java)
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ZixCorp
Team Lead
Apr 2014 - Feb 2019
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Team lead for web development and design in Ruby on Rails. In addition to guiding and leading a development team, Aaron specifically led broader company initiatives such as:
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● Unifying an acquired company’s sign-in portal and feature access management system with Zix’s own
● Adding Azure AD support to our sign-in portal
● Expanding interoperability with legacy systems for mail tracking and access
● Re-architecting and migrating locally hosted VMs to new network spaces and improving accessibilitybetween those VMs and management software

Raytheon IIS
Cyber Engineer
Aug 2011 - Apr 2014
Garland, TX
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Member of the professional services team for a custom networking appliance designed for high throughput: a “Cross-Domain Solution” enables the secure transfer of data between different security domains.
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Involved scripting in a proprietary internal language, interfacing with customers, and related design and development activities.

DRS Sensors & Targeting
Software Engineer
May 2008 - Aug 2010
Dallas, Texas

• Analyze and reverse engineer code and project processes
• Update/modify code in unfamiliar monolithic applications
• Interact with customers — capture project requirements
• Develop project design and schedule
• Model (using UML) software requirements and design
• Implement application and supporting libraries to fulfill project requirements