Aaron Wentzel
Strategic Advisor
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Wentzel is a seasoned technology and product leader with nearly three decades of engineering and entrepreneurial experience and nine years in senior executive roles, currently serving as Chief Technology & Product Officer in healthcare analytics. He brings an AI-first mindset to building enterprise SaaS portfolios that increase corporate value by enabling people, optimizing processes, and delivering measurable outcomes across 600+ healthcare sites. Previously at Microsoft he co-founded large-scale web frameworks (including the FAST project used across millions of daily users) and led global mobile and web engineering organizations, blending design advocacy with engineering rigor. An active open-source front-end contributor, he has maintained and extended Microsoft Fluent UI and FAST components for modern web and Blazor apps. He also advises cybersecurity and post-quantum startups on product strategy and go-to-market, pairing deep technical credibility with commercial impact. Based in Tucson, Aaron uniquely combines hands-on component development with executive strategy, productization, and operational scaling.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration Executive MBA, Master of Business Administration Executive MBA at WSU Carson College of Business
Spanish
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Github Skills (34)
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blazor10
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front-end-development10
typescript-types10
web-developer10
dotnet-core10
fluentui10
typescripts10
frontend10
csharp10
web-frontend10
react10
blazor-server10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fast
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
The adaptive interface system for modern web experiences.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:384 reviews, 305 commits, 532 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of front-end components within the `microsoft/fast` repository. Their work included updating documentation to reference Fluent Web, adding new components such as a divider, and implementing code changes for the new components. They also made updates to the documentation website, fixing links and grammar and adding documentation to the website. Further contributions are observed in setting up and maintaining the build and deployment configurations.
litweb-componentsadaptivedevelopment-toolsweb-components-schemas
microsoft/fluentui-blazor
Apr 2021 - Mar 2022
Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor components library. For use with ASP.NET Core Blazor applications
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 121 commits, 43 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to updating and maintaining the Microsoft Fluent UI Blazor components library. Their work involved modifying component metadata, resolving deprecated license URLs, renaming component packages, updating author information, and modifying class names to reflect the library's updates. Furthermore, the user was responsible for integrating the library into example projects and updating the project structure for the new package name. These changes demonstrate a focus on component development and library maintenance for Blazor applications.
blazorblazor-componentfluentuidesign-systemsweb-components
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