Aaron Stannard
Founder And CEO at Petabridge
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Stannard is a founder and CEO with 15 years of experience building high-performance, large-scale .NET systems and developer tools from Houston, Texas. He founded Petabridge and is the original maintainer of Akka.NET, driving production-ready actor-model tooling and related OSS like Helios, DotNetty, and NBench. Aaron combines hands-on engineering—contributing core features, performance optimizations, and test/benchmark work across projects like AppMetrics and DotNetty—with product leadership and developer advocacy. His work spans low-level network I/O, serialization, and backpressure patterns for real-time systems, reflecting deep expertise in distributed actor systems. He has a history of founding startups and automating developer-focused operations, blending entrepreneurial insight with technical depth. Notably, he has repeatedly improved performance and reliability across flagship .NET open-source projects while steering Petabridge’s commercial and community efforts.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (41)
asynchronous10
c-language10
statsd10
async10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
benchmarkdotnet10
object-oriented-programming10
networking10
netframework10
serialization10
asp-net10
socket10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
akkadotnet/akka.net
Feb 2014 - Jan 2023
Canonical actor model implementation for .NET with local + distributed actors in C# and F#.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:159 releases, 2078 reviews, 2012 commits in 9 years
Contributions summary:Aaron's contributions focused on implementing new features and fixing bugs related to back-end code, specifically in the Akka.NET actor framework. The commits include changes to the core components, such as the <see cref="IStash"/> API, and performance improvements, with a focus on memory allocation reduction and streamlining code paths. This involved debugging serialization issues and ensuring correct message handling across different components of the Akka.NET system.
actor-modelcsharpdotnetakkaconcurrency
helios-io/helios
Nov 2013 - Aug 2016
reactive socket middleware for .NET
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 461 commits, 149 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Aaron was primarily responsible for implementing core features and creating a framework for the project, starting with creating the initial Helios core with the basic files and structures. They developed a fluent interface for defining new nodes and a builder for creating services. Additionally, they created a service definition list and the core underlying I/O implementation for TCP sockets.
dotnetmiddlewaresocket
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