Tom Aylott
Founder at Things That Do Stuff
Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarTom Aylott is a veteran full‑stack product creator and founder with 20+ years building performant, maintainable systems and shipping human‑centered experiences. He’s launched and led engineering teams at companies from Facebook and Coinbase to startups he helped found, often driving front‑end performance and realtime mobile experiences (including React/React Native work). A pragmatic proponent of "Not Maintained Here," Tom favors standing on the shoulders of open source and vendor solutions to move quickly while avoiding long‑term maintenance traps. His open‑source track record spans impactful contributions to projects like MooTools, React testing infrastructure, and tools for mobile animation previews, reflecting deep cross‑browser and mobile expertise. Currently building collectible on‑device AI pets at FishInChips.ai and datasets and AI products at Things That Do Stuff, he blends product intuition with hands‑on engineering. Colleagues know him for eliminating whole classes of future issues up front and for obsessing over flawless human interactions.
20 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
javascript10
android-adb10
mysql10
testing10
css10
user-interface10
mootools10
php10
front-end-development10
sql10
android10
browser-testing10
html10
jasmine10
adb10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/Keyframes
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
A library for converting Adobe AE shape based animations to a data format and playing it back on Android and iOS devices.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tom focused on enhancing the Keyframes project with Android compatibility. Their contributions included the creation of an Android previewer that enables the real-time display of keyframe animations on connected Android devices. They also integrated the previewer into the UI, including the ability to install and launch the Android app directly from the exporter interface. Further efforts involved implementing error handling, improving the build process, and integrating with the Adobe After Effects scripts to create an end-to-end system.
animationadobeextendscriptafter-effectsdata-format
mootools/mootools-core
Jun 2008 - Oct 2011
MooTools Core Repository
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom contributed to the MooTools Core repository, modifying and adding specifications related to Element functionality, specifically focusing on the `toQueryString` method and the `Element` constructor. Their work included adapting the tests to work consistently across various browsers and addressing issues related to handling HTML elements, including form elements, such as checkboxes, selects, and text areas. These changes appear to be focused on fixing rendering issues.
mootools
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