Aric Walker

Director of Engineering

Rapid City, South Dakota, United States17 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Extensive experience in software engineering leadership roles.
Proven track record in web application development.
Expertise in Ruby on Rails and cloud-based solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Government software development expert with strong leadership capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Web DevelopmentRuby On RailsRuby Development

Other Skills

RubyRailsFlexCMSAmazon S3Software DevelopmentLinuxProgrammingSQLJavaJavaScriptSubversionHTMLGroovyGrails

Experience

17 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

8 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Github

7 roles

Staff Manager, Software Engineering

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Director, Software Engineering

Jul 2023 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

Staff Manager, Software Engineering

Promoted

Sep 2022 – Jul 2023 · 10 mos

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Software Engineering Manager

Oct 2019 – Feb 2020 · 4 mos

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2018 – Oct 2019 · 10 mos

Application Engineer

Oct 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

Elevated io, llc

Principal

Jan 2017 – Oct 2017 · 9 mos · Boulder, CO

Like a pro

Senior Software Architect

Nov 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Denver, CO

Closely, inc.

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr · Denver, CO

Software Engineer

Feb 2012 – Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Denver, CO

Truespire inc

Owner / Co-founder

Jul 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Salt Lake City Area

Managed, programmed, designed and implemented web applications using various CMS solutions including Truespire’s proprietary Rails & Flex CMS, Real Estate Composer. Our client base for these projects varied from small local businesses to regional multi-branch banks. Developed the RubyGem Backup2s3 which provides the ability to create, list, delete and restore Ruby on Rails application backups stored on Amazon S3.

Fast enterprises

Implementation Consultant

Jun 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Software development for state revenue systems. Work focused on programming for the International Fuel Tax (IFT), an online gateway to taxpayer information (http://tap.tax.utah.gov), a credit card processing web service and a web service for submitting fuel tax returns and payments directly to the state of Utah.