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Salvatore Aiello
Founder, Fractional CTO

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Location
Phoenix, USA
Engineer
17 years
Founder
8 years

Skills

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About me

With 17 years of professional engineering experience and nearly 10 as CTO or Startup Founder, I have seen it all. I watched the web transform from jQuery to React, from long-polling to web sockets, PhoneGap to React Native, and from monolithic server rendered websites to lean SPAs (and back!).

I have worked with or managed teams small and large, built back-office tools for operations, deployed client facing applications used by hundreds of thousands, and personally launched and exited numerous startups.

In my product and founder roles, I am the sole stakeholder making product decisions assuring that we are firmly on a path to product market fit and beyond. In my CTO roles I strive to be a hands on “wartime” CTO, rapid prototyping business needs and bringing those prototypes to production ready maintainable applications.

FounderMarch 2023 – August 2023
An LLM based business validator and launchpad for startups. We help you validate your idea, build your MVP, and launch your business.
  • Generated over 40,000 business reports for small business owners and agencies
  • Over 1,100 sales at an average of $62 per sale
  • Worked with influencers, growth marketers, and agencies to expand our marketing footprint in novel ways
  • Launched MVP in 4 days
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FounderJanuary 2021 – March 2023
A web based, 3d, multiplayer game engine built to teach kids engineering skills
  • Used by thousands of people to make their own 3d games from right in their browser or tablet
  • Multiplayer is handled entirely by the internal engine, works irrespective of latency or device power
  • Built for people without game development experience, or even programming experience
  • Full coding environment, as well as drag and drop ability to configure logic
  • Full voxel editor for models and map layout
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CTO / Co-FounderAugust 2018 – July 2023
A full-service virtual care (telemedicine) and prescription pricing platform available to over 100,000 members
  • Architected and maintained multiple React Native Android/iOS app written in strict TypeScript
  • Architected and maintained a fully stateless RESTful API using Serverless, NodeJS, and strict TypeScript, hosted on AWS API Gateway
  • Worked closely with the CEO and executive team to convert business rules into real executable logic
  • Managed team of engineers and worked with business leaders to schedule features and releases
  • Integrated with several third-party APIs for things such as prescription lookup, drug pricing, video conferencing, doctor consultations, and Twilio IVR
  • Built from scratch with React, React-native, Typescript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, Serverless
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FounderMarch 2019 – April 2020
A Social Event Matchmaker built specifically for couples
  • Designed business model from the ground up to best suit customer needs
  • Worked closely with potential customers to design UX journeys and personas
  • Architected and maintained a React Native Android/iOS app written in strict TypeScript
  • Architected and maintained a fully stateless RESTful API using Serverless, NodeJS, and strict TypeScript, hosted on AWS API Gateway
  • Designed custom modern UI/UX
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Chief Technology Officer / Co-FounderOctober 2016 – April 2019
Personal nutrition wellness app used by tens of thousands
  • Built the development team from a single engineer to a stable team of 10 in under 6 months
  • Outlined and built architecture for a brand-new backend system, database, web portal, and mobile applications, as well as payment processing and order fulfillment
  • Pioneered the use of TypeScript, React Native, and Serverless
  • Worked closely with CEO to devise and develop features that would affect our business
  • Procured and managed relationships with 3rd party vendors
  • Oversaw the creation and development of 7 mobile applications, 4 web portals, and countless 3rd party integrations, used by tens of thousands of paying customers each day
  • Integrated a custom hardware stack to support the seamless communication with multiple proprietary Bluetooth devices
  • Devised process for backend and application deploys to allow consistent and continuous deploys
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VP, EngineeringMarch 2015 – October 2016
Telemedicine app built for users, sold through insurance brokers with over 20,000 enrolled agents
  • Led a team of 6 frontend and backend developers
  • Oversaw transition to telephony to WebRTC-based doctor video network; resulted in 100,000+ annual membership boost and 12 million dollar annual revenue increase
  • Parallelized member feed processes utilizing AWS queueing and server caching system to meet the increasing demand
  • Rebuilt backend API layer and purpose-built MongoDB ORM into stable, structured stack; increasing junior .NET developer productivity and onboarding
  • Released Ionic-based Android/iOS application; utilized by 100,000+ users daily
  • Architected framework for internal and external use web portals; ensured integration capability with 20+ third party networks
  • Sold to Teledoc for $180 Million, the biggest acquisition by them at that time
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