Thomas Aylesworth
Distinguished Software Engineer at Appian Corporation
Reston, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Aylesworth is a Distinguished Software Engineer with over two decades of experience building mobile and full-stack systems, currently leading feature teams at Appian to deliver web and mobile products with maintainable architectures. He has deep mobile expertise across iOS and Android and has built both clients and the RESTful services that power them, with hands-on experience in Swift, Objective-C, Java, C#, C++, and .NET. His career spans defense and aerospace to streaming media and automotive domains, giving him a strong systems-thinking approach to performance, energy efficiency, and real-world constraints. At Appian he drove the transition to simultaneous web-and-mobile feature delivery through full-stack teams, improving cross-platform consistency and maintainability. Notably, he has designed low-level mobile capabilities such as CoreMotion/CoreLocation sensor processing and real-time media features like Push-To-Talk and XMPP chat. Based in Reston, VA, he pairs pragmatic architecture with low-level engineering rigor to ship reliable products across large organizations.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at George Mason University
Github Skills (25)
swiftui10
null-safety9
appkit9
ide9
xcode9
swift9
code-editor9
macos8
lisp8
ios8
open-source7
editor7
sdk6
js5
programming-language5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SwampThingTom/AdventOfCode
Dec 2021 - Dec 2025
Contributions:89 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
SwampThingTom/AoC2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:65 commits, 68 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
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