Aaron Dao
Chief Technology Officer at The Guestbook
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Dao is a technology leader with a decade of hands-on engineering experience, currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at The Guestbook in Los Angeles. He rose through engineering ranks at the same company from Software Developer to CTO, combining deep Ruby on Rails and full-stack experience with product-focused leadership for a profitable hospitality tech scale-up. Aaron has led teams that built and optimized rewards and booking systems used across 800+ independent hotels worldwide, helping The Guestbook win consecutive Best Loyalty Program awards. He pairs pragmatic engineering — performance tuning background services and shipping analytics features early in his career — with strategic oversight of growth-stage platform operations. Known for moving quickly from code to strategy, he blends developer empathy with measurable delivery and operational rigor. He holds a Computer Science degree from California State University, Long Beach and brings a bias for building customer-facing systems that drive measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach
Github Skills (13)
ruby-rails7
authenticate6
ruby-client6
facebook5
api5
facebook-graph-api5
graph4
ruby-on-rails4
ruby4
rails3
authentication3
keyword2
similarity1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nullscreen/fb-auth
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 19 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 month
authenticationaccountfacebookfacebook-accountauthenticate
S1v4/lbx
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 8 months
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