Aaron Craig

Director of Engineering

Los Angeles, California, United States46 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

20+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
Expertise in distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
Proven track record in scaling high-performance software solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Engineering Leader with extensive experience in high-performance software solutions.

Contact

acraig@fanaticsinc.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

VideoPHPMusicJavaScriptFilmTheatreWeb ApplicationsMySQLHTMLGraphic DesignWeb DesignWritingVideo EditingProductionEvent Management

About

Experienced Hands on Engineering Leader with 20+ years in architecting and scaling high-performance, stable software solutions for e-commerce, logistics and more. Expertise in distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and full-stack development across various platforms and tech stacks. Currently seeking hands-on senior engineering or engineering leadership roles. Technology includes: Typescript, NodeJS, NestJS, React, ReactNative, Ruby on Rails, Python, Java, Android & iOS, AWS, GCP, relational databases, noSQL, GraphQL, serverless and container based architectures

Experience

46 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 7 mos

Current Experience

Fanatics

Director of Software Engineering

Aug 2025 – Present · 10 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States · Hybrid

Leading the eng team at Topps

Fanfare

Master AI Wrangler

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States · Hybrid

Defining how fans and brands interact on line and in person through high velocity drops, sale events, drawings and more

Stealthy startup

Stealthy Engineer

Nov 2024 – Mar 2025 · 4 mos · The World · Remote

Building some amazing tech for e-commerce in the Shopify space.

Complex ntwrk

VP of Engineering

Mar 2024 – Nov 2024 · 8 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · On-site

Ntwrk

VP of Engineering

Sep 2023 – Apr 2024 · 7 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States · On-site

Fashion nova

Director of Engineering

Jul 2021 – Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Honey

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Endpoint

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · El Segundo, California

Rival inc

Senior Staff Engineer

Nov 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Los Angeles Area

I use React and React Native to build web and mobile applications that make managing the biggest live events easier.

Iam+

Software Engineering Manager

Jun 2016 – Nov 2016 · 5 mos · West Hollywood, CA

I manage a team of front and back end developers making pubic facing web apps to support the iam+ dial wearable.

Twenty20 inc.

Engineer

May 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Santa Monica, California

Developing innovative ways to catalog and search digital images.

Dollar shave club

Engineer

Mar 2014 – May 2014 · 2 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

Temptster

CTO

Jun 2013 – Mar 2014 · 9 mos · Dublin, Ireland

Making innovative tech that connects restaurants, theaters and other venues to their fans in real time.

Birbl

CTO

Jul 2012 – Jun 2013 · 11 mos · Dublin, Ireland

Chief Technical Officer in charge of setting up the tech team and managing development and deployment of an online e-commerce system.

Future leaders for the world

Drama teacher

Aug 2011 – Sep 2011 · 1 mo · Lake Como, Italy

Using techniques from theater and film, taught communication skills to young entrepreneurs from around the world.

Visionary leadership program at european school of economics

Drama Teacher

Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 · 0 mo

Using techniques from theater and film, taught communication skills to young entrepreneurs from around the world.

Florence university of the arts

Professor of Web Design & Marketing

Sep 2009 – Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Teach standards compliant HTML / CSS

Tuscan american association

2 roles

Board Member

Promoted

Jan 2009 – Jun 2012 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Organize events and initiatives for this non-profit association.

Board Member

Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 · 0 mo

Organized events including the annual 4th of July festival, fundraisers, etc.

Megagames.com

Lead developer

Jan 2009 – Jun 2012 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Oversee and implement development on this web site providing news, downloads and more to hard core gamers.

Performance international

Founder and Artistic Director

Dec 2008 – Dec 2011 · 3 yrs

Production company producing music, theater, cinema and events based in Florence, Italy.

Gaga

Associate

Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 · 0 mo

Director / actor

Florence university of the arts

Professor

Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 · 0 mo

Teacher of independent studies in Portfolio Design.

E-ducation.it

Actor

Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 · 0 mo

Acted in an innovative sit-com for teaching English

Evolving design

Owner

Sep 2006 – May 2012 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Web site design and hosting.
Web marketing consulting.

Florence international theatre company

Co Founder / Co Artistic Director

Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs

Director, actor and producer of large and small theatrical productions in English in Florence, Italy. Organized community events for the promotion of culture.