operations leader · full-stack builder

Aaron Simo.
I scale technical teams and build the systems that let them perform.

I run high-throughput technical operations and ship full-stack products solo — from the schema and deploy pipeline to the native app and the test rig that validates the hardware. Today I lead workshop and fulfillment for a photobooth manufacturer, moving thousands of devices a month and building the dashboards, test fixtures, and workflows that lift first-pass yield and cut cost. Before that, eight years in Navy avionics. I care about the same things at every scale: throughput, reliability, and tooling that makes a team faster.

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aasimo13@gmail.com · 586-344-1284 · LinkedIn ↗ · Clinton Township, MI
01 Projects
live · web + iOS

A family-management app with AI-assisted meal planning, smart shopping lists, shared finances, scheduling, and chore gamification. Shipped on the web and the App Store, built and deployed solo: a web frontend, a Supabase Postgres backend with row-level security and hardening migrations, edge functions on a GitHub Actions pipeline, and an iOS build with Apple in-app purchases. My biggest project — designed, built, deployed, and maintained end to end.

Supabase / Postgres Row-Level Security Edge Functions iOS · App Store Apple IAP GitHub Actions CI/CD Vercel AI-assisted features
live pilot

A multi-tenant SaaS platform for lawn-care and snow-removal contractors — digital contracts with e-signature, professional invoicing, online payments via Square, and a customer database, all in one place. Runs on a free-trial-to-subscription model ($29–39/mo) with a live pilot customer. Built and deployed solo. The interesting part is the multi-tenant architecture: isolating each contractor's data, contracts, and billing on shared infrastructure.

Multi-tenant SaaS E-signature contracts Square payments Subscription billing Firebase Google Cloud Vercel

gutter.guru

gutter.guru ↗
live business

A website and CRM built for Guys Gutters LLC to manage customers, jobs, and scheduling — designed and deployed independently for a real, operating business. A purpose-built vertical tool that replaces spreadsheets and scattered notes with one system the company runs on.

Full-stack web app CRM Scheduling Custom domain

MiLa Test Station

hardware + software · automated QA
test automation

A Raspberry Pi automated pass/fail test rig for USB microphone units. It plays a frequency sweep, records it back, and validates the capture in about five seconds — with automated plug-in triggering, GPIO LED/beep output, and a self-calibration routine. Purpose-built to make device validation fast, repeatable, and operator-proof on a high-throughput line.

Raspberry Pi Python GPIO Audio DSP / signal validation Automated QA Self-calibration
02 Also built
Custom test fixtures KRUU workshop
Bespoke pass/fail test rigs and fixtures for the production line, beyond MiLa — built to standardize validation and speed up throughput.
Internal dashboards ops tooling
Real-time dashboards giving the team visibility into device availability, throughput, and first-pass yield.
Hardware & 3D printing maker
Designed printable parts and device enclosures to spec, tuned print profiles, and did board-level repair and soldering work.
Experiments prototypes
A steady stream of prototypes — the way I learn a new tool is by shipping something with it.
03 About
85
technicians led
(Navy avionics)
$79M
cost savings delivered fleet-wide
~2,500/mo
devices fulfilled, peaking at 1,000/wk
$1–5M
device inventory managed

I'm an operations leader who scales technical teams and builds the systems that let them perform. I pair hands-on electronics depth with a record of running high-throughput repair and fulfillment operations, managing multi-million-dollar inventory, and engineering the tooling that cuts cost and lifts reliability.

Today I lead workshop and fulfillment operations at KRUU US, a German-owned photobooth manufacturer — directing a cross-functional team of up to eight, moving roughly 2,500 devices a month, and building the standardized repair workflows, custom test fixtures, and real-time dashboards that improved first-pass yield and gave the team live visibility into throughput. Before that, eight years in the U.S. Navy as an aviation electronics technician and production supervisor, where I supervised 85 technicians maintaining F/A-18E/F avionics across 15 squadrons and helped deliver $79M in cost savings at 100% fleet asset availability.

Running through all of it is the same instinct: throughput, reliability, and tooling that makes a team faster — whether that's a test rig that validates a device in five seconds, a dashboard that surfaces a bottleneck, or a SaaS backend that has to stay up for a paying customer. I also ship full-stack software solo, and use modern AI tools (Claude, GPT, Gemini) daily in my technical work.

now
Lead, US Workshop & Fulfillment Operations @ KRUU US Inc
building
HomeForge (web + iOS), Sodly, gutter.guru, MiLa Test Station
background
U.S. Navy avionics (AT2) · Six Sigma · Secret clearance (inactive)
stack
Supabase / Postgres · Firebase · Vercel · iOS · Raspberry Pi / Python
04 Contact

Open to engineering and engineering-leadership roles. Based in Clinton Township, MI. The fastest way to reach me:

aasimo13@gmail.com 586-344-1284 LinkedIn ↗ View résumé ↗ Download résumé ↓