Aaron Burcham
San Francisco
Summary
Dynamic Technical Senior Program Manager at BetterUp, adept at driving engineering excellence and cloud migration initiatives. Spearheaded a governance framework that mitigated $60M in product risk and led localization efforts for a $67M feature. Proficient in AWS and Agile methodologies, with a strong focus on collaboration and innovation.Senior Technical Program Manager with a track record of leading complex software, platform, mobile, and cloud initiatives at Microsoft, Life360, Stitch Fix, and BetterUp. Skilled at translating business strategy into execution by aligning cross-functional teams, driving operational excellence, managing dependencies, and delivering high-impact programs in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Senior Program Manager
BetterUp
San Francisco, CA
11.2022 - 06.2026
- Data Governance: Established a technical structure and governance framework that reduced sixty million dollars in product risk by 83 percent.
- Localization: Led the localization of a major feature for a flagship customer representing 67 million dollars in revenue. I stepped in to lead all hiring and program coordination when the localization manager left mid-project, meeting all contractual obligations.
- Platform Communications: Organized thousands of fragmented email communications into two distinct templates. This removed hours of debugging time and release anxiety for engineering teams, ensuring launches go out on time with no surprises.
- Cloud Migration:: Led the technical migration from Heroku to AWS to improve platform scalability and reliability.
- Engineering Excellence: Drove initiatives including on-call rotations, postmortems, and shipping processes focused on speed to learning.
- Built an AI-powered test planning agent that transformed product requirements and technical specifications into comprehensive test plans, accelerating test creation, increasing coverage, and reducing production defects.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, TXSkills
- Jira
- Confluence
- AWS
- Microservices
- Distributed Systems
- APIs
- SQL
- CI/CD
- Git
- Agile/Scrum
- Release Management
- Generative AI
- AI Agents
Timeline
Technical Senior Program Manager
BetterUp
11.2022 - 06.2026
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Texas A&M University