Aaron Bach
Co-Founder, CTO at Home Assistant
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top expert inSmart Home Automation and IoT Development
Aaron Bach is a seasoned technology leader and Co-Founder/CTO who brings 16 years of experience building secure, scalable software and product organizations for enterprise customers. At Liminal he designs privacy-preserving generative AI infrastructure for Fortune-scale companies, combining boardroom-level strategy with hands-on architecture and engineering. He’s a prolific open-source contributor and core member of Home Assistant, blending deep backend integrations and practical front-end fixes that demonstrate a privacy-first IoT mindset. His track record spans incubation, hypergrowth, acquisition, and enterprise deployment across startups and large firms, and he’s repeatedly turned research and IP into product lines. Based in Denver, he’s equally comfortable sketching compliance-minded system designs for executives and shipping UI enhancements or integrations in popular community projects.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.B.A., Innovation and Entrepreneurship, M.B.A., Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of Denver - Daniels College of BusinessB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (28)
javascript10
python10
firefox-webextension10
browser-extension10
css10
typescript10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
google-chrome-extension10
typescript-types10
html10
home-assistant10
nodejs10
webextension10
typescripts10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:906 reviews, 1095 commits, 1619 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Aaron's contributions primarily revolved around fixing bugs and enhancing the functionality of the `home-assistant/core` repository, which is focused on open-source home automation. They identified and addressed issues with the RainMachine integration, focusing on resolving problems with legacy controllers. They also worked on improvements and enhancements to other integrations, such as SimpliSafe and Guardian. The code changes involved modifying existing components, ensuring stability, and incorporating better error handling.
home-automationpythoniotinternet-of-thingsmqtt
joshfarrant/shortcuts-js
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
A JavaScript iOS 12 Shortcuts creator
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 10 PRs, 9 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the creation of actions within a JavaScript library for building iOS Shortcuts. They added new functionalities such as retrieving IP addresses, device details, network information, generating hashes, base64 encoding, and random numbers. Furthermore, the user implemented new actions for Pythonista scripts and alerts, updating docstrings, and adding test coverage to ensure functionality.
iosjavascriptios12appleshortcuts
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