Aaron Meza
Chief Technology Officer at Crown Jewelry and Time
Northfield, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Meza is a people-first CTO and founder with 15+ years of engineering leadership experience, currently transforming a $7M luxury retail business into a data-driven brand through modern data lakes, AI-driven customer insights, and product-digital provenance innovations. He has led large distributed teams at VMware and Target to deliver platform-level improvements—launching fast time-to-value SaaS flows, cutting cloud costs by 50%, and standardizing data services on Kubernetes. As founder of Confelicity AI he translates Fortune 150 engineering discipline into SMB-ready data and AI architectures that connect finance, CRM, and operations for measurable ROI. Aaron blends hands-on systems engineering with strategic brand and operational modernization, from introducing Notion as an operational backbone to prototyping NFC-enabled gold authentication tokens. He is grounded in practical delivery—building observability, CI/CD, and reproducible pipelines—and is as focused on psychological safety and leadership development as on technical outcomes. Based in Northfield, MN, he pairs a strong academic foundation with a track record of turning fragmented systems into scalable, AI-ready platforms.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.) highest honors Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.) highest honors Computer Science at Anoka-Ramsey Community CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.) cum laude Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) cum laude Computer Science at Augsburg UniversityMaster's degree Management, Master's degree Management at Harvard Extension School
French
Stackoverflow
21reputation
138reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (7)
cloud-foundry9
kubernetes-helm9
ovf6
virtualization6
vmware5
aws4
golang1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aaronmeza/dotfiles
Mar 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
aaronmeza/alpha-assay
Sep 2025 - Apr 2026
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 19 branches in 7 months
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