Summary
Tony Thomson is a founder and seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms and products from early-stage startups to established engineering organizations. As Co-Founder and CTO of Middle Ground he’s shaping the first AI-powered public consultation workspace, combining product vision with hands-on engineering. He also advises and builds for teams through Liminal Action, focusing on architecture, technical debt reduction, and boosting developer velocity with modern AI-enabled tooling. His background spans front-end modernization and data-driven systems at Adobe, Quid, and Vouch, plus early systems and graphics work at Apple, giving him a rare mix of UX, systems, and infrastructure expertise. Tony pairs product-minded leadership with sustainability interests—an MBA in Sustainability Management and fellowship work at Climate Vine inform his climate-focused side projects. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex requirements into pragmatic architectures that accelerate delivery.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Sustainability Management, MBA Sustainability Management at Presidio Graduate School
Hack Reactor
Graduate Certificate Cybergis And Geospatial Data Science, Graduate Certificate Cybergis And Geospatial Data Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at McGill University
English, French