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AboutAaron Junod
I have spent about twenty years building technology for banks and the fintechs that serve them. This site is where I write down what I learn along the way: how that technology actually gets built, what AI changes about it, and the things I make in between.
What I write about
Banking technology
How banks and the fintechs around them actually build, buy and integrate technology.
More soonApplied AI
What AI changes in regulated work, and what it does not.
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Writing, talks, the newsletter and experiments built along the way.
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Background
I grew up in East Windsor, Connecticut. My first computer was an Amiga 1000, in fifth grade; a Packard Bell 486 came later. I ran a modified Renegade BBS, and in high school I sold computers at an electronics store.
I spent about four years in Texas. I fixed computers at a small shop, then ran all of the technology for a recruiting and background-investigation firm, which is where I started writing software, around Y2K, in Paradox on a LANtastic network.
Back in Connecticut I contracted in VB and ASP, then spent eight and a half years at a benefits technology company that grew from 22 people to 375 while I was there. After that I spent five years at a personal finance company, where we turned a single-page SSO product into an embedded finance platform for banks and credit unions, through its acquisition. Since then I have been building tools that help banks serve their commercial customers; the escrow product has crossed 100 banks.
Now
I write these field notes, give the occasional talk, and build open-source tools for AI agents. The tools are on the projects page; the notes start here.