Aaron Suggs

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Instructure

   Apr 2023 — Present

   Currently a manager-of-managers leading a department of 27, sustaining innovation on the Canvas LMS with 6 million DAUs and over $400 million ARR.I lead with a combination of mission-oriented metrics (teacher efficacy, student outcomes and engagement), business metrics (CSAT, avg contract value, net revenue retention, COGS), and DevEx / employee engagement metrics.Current focuses include- Onboarding new engineering teams- Improving the new customer onboarding & LMS import experience- Modernizing a 15+ year old Ruby codebase- Scaling to support ever larger courses and learning institutions- Inventing easier and more flexible ways to manage course content- Securely and reliably serving many petabytes of educational content- Creating features to support more educational methodologies, like competency-based assessment.

Education

• University of Chicago

  BA, Mathematics

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• Git
• Linux
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Web Development
• Javascript
• Ruby
• People Management
• Mysql
• Ruby on Rails
• Devops