Aaron Saray is an entrepreneurial software engineer and owner with 13+ years building scalable, vendor-neutral web applications for SMBs and enterprises from Milwaukee. He blends hands-on PHP/JavaScript development (Laravel, Node, React) with product and engineering leadership, having served as CTO, Director and Senior Director roles where he focused on architecture, team growth and operationalizing metrics. Founder of the Milwaukee PHP Users Group and an active open-source contributor, he improved backend testability and pagination in projects like Protoqol/Prequel, showing attention to both developer experience and customer-facing functionality. He advises startups and runs More Better Faster, helping teams escape vendor lock-in, document systems and rescue troubled projects. Known for translating complex business needs into usable interfaces, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a collaborative, people-first approach.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
BS Business Management, BS Business Management at Cardinal Stritch University
Prequel for Laravel. Clear and concise database management.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on modifying the backend logic of the Laravel-based Prequel project. They updated pagination settings and configuration, changing how data is retrieved and displayed from the database. The user also modified the database connection retrieval and implemented unit tests. These changes improved the functionality and testability of the application.
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