Brian Appleton
Senior Software Engineer at Xero
Greater Calgary Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Appleton is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of hands-on experience building and maintaining reliable software systems, currently contributing at Xero after progressing from intermediate to senior roles. Based in the Greater Calgary area, he combines a pragmatic problem-solving mindset—"give me a computer and a problem and I'll fix it"—with a background in object-oriented development from SAIT. His career began in technical support and service management, where he led small distributed teams and supported large-scale POS and call center infrastructure, giving him a practical appreciation for operational reliability and cross-team collaboration. Brian has moved steadily up the engineering ladder through roles at TaxCycle and Resource Energy Solutions, demonstrating adaptability across domains and stack layers. Known for shipping dependable solutions and mentoring junior colleagues, he blends systems-level thinking with a hands-on troubleshooting ethos that helps bridge product needs and production realities.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Object Oriented Software Development, Certificate, Object Oriented Software Development at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
English
Github Skills (17)
javascript9
open-source9
typescript8
microsoft7
electron7
vscode-extension7
vscode7
editor7
visual-studio6
visual-studio-code6
bit5
css4
threaded4
jquery3
multithreading3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bilal-github/Term1_Project
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
HTML, CSS, JavaScript Project
Contributions:52 commits, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 25 days
javascript-projectcssjavascriptcss3html-css-javascript
appleton6509/UptimeMonitorWeb
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:80 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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