Aidan Edwards
Senior Software Engineer at Qualcomm
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAidan Edwards is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Diego with 11 years of experience building systems-level software, web services, and tooling for high-performance communications. Currently at Qualcomm after four years on 5G research and internal tooling for Project Pentari, he brings deep expertise in software architecture, computer systems, and cybersecurity. He has a proven track record of shipping robust, production-ready code across domains—from networking prototypes at Amazon to cloud job distribution improvements at Cadence and legacy-modernization work in Ruby backends. A strong mathematical foundation and disciplined problem-solving help him deliver on tight deadlines and stressful projects while mentoring peers. Colleagues know him as a thoughtful architect who translates research into practical developer tools and reliable services. Off-hours, his GitHub persona—self-described as “Tall and Tired Computer Scientist”—hints at a pragmatic, hands-on engineer who favors substance over polish.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Science and Technology Academy, 4.00, Science and Technology Academy, 4.00 at Dripping Springs High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.50, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.50 at Baylor University
Japanese, English, Latin, German
Github Skills (200)
msgpack10
mosh10
cpp10
cbor10
discord-js10
gameserver10
firefox10
api10
pooling10
json10
nodejs10
messagepack10
command-line10
reader10
windows10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
BU-DropTower/DropTower
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Drop Tower React Native App
Contributions:16 PRs, 131 pushes, 48 branches in 3 months
reactreact-nativenative-appjavascriptsplashscreen
DiscordPP/rest-beast
Jun 2018 - Sep 2022
Provides Discord++ bots with REST functionality via the Boost Beast library
Contributions:1 review, 66 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 3 months
boost-beastdiscorddiscord-botbeastdiscord-bots
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