Aaron Gough

Portrait of Aaron Gough
Person An icon of a human figure Status
Double Agent
Hash An icon of a hash sign Code Name
Agent 00133
Location An icon of a map marker Location
Toronto, ON

His mission

(he chose to accept it)
Deliver business value through code
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Aaron is an outstanding software engineer and team leader. He is fast, focused and always pushing the best possible questions that ensure product-solution fit and product-market fit. Aaron is enormously disciplined in his approach to delivery while somehow maintaining a creative edge that makes him fun to work with.
CEO
Sparrow

Recent Deployments

Craft
Legacy cleanup
Line chart decreasing
CI runtime improvements
Organization
Systems design
Integration
Stripe integration

Tools & Tradecraft

Ruby

Rails

Mentorship

CI/CD

TDD

Noteworthy Achievements

Designed and led a zero-downtime migration from PostgreSQL to Amazon Aurora for an application with tens of thousands of concurrent users
Reduced team infrastructure spend by 95%, while also increasing reliability and durability—saving over $150k/year
Started and led a manufacturing startup delivering high quality products to nearly every country in the world!
Reduced CI runtimes from 90 minutes down to just 10 minutes 🎉

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