Aaron Stannard 👋

I build OSS .NET technologies aimed at making it easier to build large-scale applications.

⚡ Work

I'm currently the Founder and CEO of Petabridge, a company that provides commercial support, training, and tooling for Akka.NET, one of the OSS projects I founded. We create products like Phobos Akka.NET APM, Petabridge.Cmd Akka.NET CLI, and OSS tools such as NBench - .NET Performance Testing.

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Another thing I'm proud of that I've done lately - redid our "Akka.NET Bootcamp" free self-paced learning course and launched it here: https://petabridge.com/bootcamp/

Blog Posts

Why Your Software Sucks: Inheritance - Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Why Am I Paying $40,000 for the Birth of My Child? - Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Stop Failing The `git clone && run` Test - Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Your HTML Comments Are More Powerful Than You Think: Building Custom Validation Grammars with HtmlAgilityPack - Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:00:00 +0000

There Has Never Been a Better Time to be a Junior Developer - And It Won't Last Forever - Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:44:00 +0000

So Microsoft Deleted Some of Our Packages From NuGet.org Without Notice - Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:42:00 +0000

Continuous Deployment of Docker Compose Applications Using GitHub Actions - Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:44:00 +0000

Signing NuGet Packages Using Azure DevOps and Workload Identity Federation - Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:44:00 +0000

The Future of AI Belongs to Experienced Operators with Good Taste - Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:44:00 +0000

Software Falsehoods: you can build it cheap, fast, and good - pick two - Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:44:00 +0000