Aaron Lerch
CTO at Digible, Inc
Erie, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Lerch is a seasoned engineering executive and current CTO with 14+ years of experience building cloud, SaaS, and platform systems that align engineering outcomes with business value. He has led and scaled teams of 18–50+, delivering multimillion-dollar cost savings, 10x feature velocity gains, and efficiency improvements exceeding 80% while maintaining low attrition at companies like Netflix and InVision. Aaron blends strategic roadmap and product visioning with hands-on technical leadership—driving migrations from monoliths to microservices, enterprise security features (BYOK, SSO), and operational readiness practices that doubled delivery rates. He’s also an active back-end contributor to notable open-source work such as ServiceStack, focusing on performance, tests, and developer experience. Based in Erie, Colorado, he pairs a pragmatic knack for sunsetting legacy systems with a passion for building culture and processes that unlock new revenue and reduce manual toil.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Taylor University
English, Lingala
Stackoverflow
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linux
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mono
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Github Skills (22)
application-framework10
app-framework10
webservice10
mono10
dotnet-core10
netcore10
web-framework10
csharp10
nuget9
unit-testing9
web-content9
webpages9
linux9
http-header9
rack6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ServiceStack/ServiceStack
Sep 2012 - May 2013
Thoughtfully architected, obscenely fast, thoroughly enjoyable web services for all
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the back-end of the ServiceStack framework. Their commits focused on adding new features, such as HTTP header constants and improved Razor view compilation error messages, along with fixing various bugs. The user also worked on integrating new features and improvements by merging upstream branches. Moreover, their work extends to unit tests and integration tests within the project.
webservicenet-frameworkwebservicesframeworkc-sharp
aaronlerch/dotfiles
Feb 2014 - Mar 2022
Contributions:69 commits, 52 pushes in 8 years 2 months
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