Todd Shortlidge
Software Engineer, Swift at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Shortlidge is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building system-level features at Apple, currently working on the Swift compiler. His contributions span Sema, SILGen, and AST improvements—fixing diagnostics around unavailable declarations and refining @backDeployed attribute handling—reflecting deep compiler and language-design expertise. Prior to compiler work he spent nearly a decade developing HealthKit and the iOS Mail client, giving him broad experience across frameworks and apps. Based in San Francisco and educated at Brown, he pairs rigorous CS fundamentals with practical, production-grade engineering on one of the most widely used open-source language projects.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Sc.B., Computer Science, Sc.B., Computer Science at Brown University
Github Skills (3)
swift10
compiler-development10
astm9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift
May 2022 - Jan 2023
The Swift Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Framework Contributor
Back-end Developer & Framework ContributorContributions:836 reviews, 257 commits, 1458 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Todd contributed to the Swift programming language project, specifically focusing on improving the availability of accessor and class declarations in Swift interfaces. Their work involved fixing diagnostics related to unavailable declarations and improving the handling of `@backDeployed` attributes for functions. The user's work touched upon several areas of the Swift compiler, including Sema, SILGen and the AST.
swift-programmingswift-programming-languageprogramming-languageswift
tshortli/swift
Dec 2021 - Apr 2025
The Swift Programming Language
Contributions:2 PRs, 1181 pushes, 1599 branches in 3 years 4 months
swift-programmingswift-programming-languageprogramming-languageswift
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