Summary
Aaron Swerdlow-freed is a Director of Engineering Strategy with 11 years of experience building and delivering enterprise software solutions, currently leading strategy and IP delivery at Groundswell. He combines a Computer Science foundation with Organizational Psychology to align technical architecture, sales, and client experience across public and private sector engagements. A longtime Appian expert and former Platinum-rated practitioner, he has driven adoption and go-to-market success for reseller programs and shepherded complex implementations on AWS, SAP, and legacy stacks. Aaron’s background spans hands-on consulting, sales engineering, and account leadership, giving him a rare fluency between product delivery and commercial growth. Based in Reston, VA, he’s known for partnering with clients from first call through long-term support, and for translating process-focused solutions into measurable operational gains. An owner-operator turned engineering strategist, he still applies small-business pragmatism to enterprise-scale problems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Rochester
English