Aaron Wise

Aaron Wise is CTO & Principal at Digital Foundry, where he leads technology strategy and engineering for clients ranging from early-stage startups to established software companies.

He is a business-minded technology executive who uses automation, long-term planning and modern architecture to solve hard business problems. His work spans leading platform transformations and modernizations, building high-performing engineering teams, and designing scalable information architectures and secure, AI-backed platforms.

Aaron breaks down silos between business and engineering, applying proven management practices so teams can ship quickly without sacrificing quality or security. He holds an MBA and an MS in Information Assurance (MSIA).

Alongside client work he builds open-source tools at Digital Foundry, including Actualis, which shows what coding agents actually ran, and writes about pragmatic technology leadership at Pragmatic Leader.