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Senior-level tech, without the agency invoice.

Developer
Architect
Builder

Enterprise-grade experience. One person. No account manager. No markup.

I'm Aaron: developer, architect, and the person who kept event pipelines running across 300M+ Samsung SmartThings devices. Now I build software and systems for small businesses who need things to actually work, not just look good in a deck. One person. AI in the toolkit. Faster and cheaper than a team.

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About

Four years on the event pipeline team at Samsung SmartThings, running low-latency, high-volume systems that kept 300M+ connected devices in sync. The scale was real. The bureaucracy was also real. Now I do the former without the latter.

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Services

Four ways I help. Pick the one that sounds like your week.

Writing

Things I've learned, things I've shipped, and things I probably shouldn't say at a sprint planning meeting.

All Writing

The Accidental Manager

Promote your best engineer into management with no training and you don't lose a manager when it goes wrong. You lose the team. The tax most companies pay every quarter and never see on a balance sheet.

management engineering-career leadership
11 min read

The McDonald's Drive-Thru Cheater and the Four Types of People

A McDonald's drive-thru with an unenforced merge rule turns out to be a small daily experiment in cooperation. The four types of drivers it produces are the same four people on every engineering team.

engineering-practice teams culture
7 min read

Adequacy looks like success

Recruiters get graded on the candidates they hire. Nobody tracks the ones they reject. The system is designed to never know if it's wrong.

hiring talent-acquisition management
6 min read
Receipts

What past clients actually said.

"We had a half-finished build and a vendor who stopped returning emails. Aaron picked it up, shipped the remaining 30% in two weeks, and still came in under the original quote."

Past client

SaaS operator

"Asked for a simple integration. Got back working software, a clear write-up of what could go wrong, and an honest answer on what wasn't worth building. First time I've gotten all three."

Past client

Agency owner

"The refactor we kept putting off turned into a one-week engagement. No drama, no scope creep, no account manager emailing me weekly about 'alignment.'"

Operations lead

30-person logistics company

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