Alexander List
Founder CEO at FlyShirley.com
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander List is a founder and CEO building FlyShirley, an AI flight trainer and real-time copilot that brings simulator-based curricula and voice assistance from sim to sky. With 15 years of software engineering and entrepreneurial experience, he has led simulation and autonomy teams at Beta Technologies and Merlin Labs and holds an MEng in Computer Science from MIT with aerospace thesis work on UAV controllability. A product-focused engineer, he blends mobile, web, and real-time systems expertise with commercial pilot experience to deliver operationally grounded aviation software. His work has earned an Apple Design Award and spans startups, large aerospace research, and hands-on teaching—an uncommon mix that informs both user-centered design and rigorous flight‑safety thinking.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Central High SchoolMasters of Engineering (M-Eng), Computer Science, Masters of Engineering (M-Eng), Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDrexel University
Github Skills (104)
objective-c10
ios-framework9
ios9
serialization9
swift8
database8
protobuf8
protocol-buffers8
x-plane8
multipart8
mongodb8
tvos8
rpc8
nodejs8
postgresql7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ExoMachina/Swyp
Jul 2011 - Nov 2022
Framework for transferring any file from any app, to any app on any device: simply with a swÿp. Master at URL below.
Contributions:233 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 11 years 6 months
master
Airplane-Team/sample-challenges
Jun 2024 - Sep 2025
Example sim challenges for FlyShirley.com
Contributions:8 reviews, 13 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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