Thomas Wilsher

Thomas Wilsher has worked for eight different companies since 1992. Thomas began their career as a Senior Member of Technical Staff at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in 1992. Thomas then moved to Kantega in 1997 as a Senior Consultant, where they were the Architect/Technical Lead on a project developing a web-based distributed system for on-line loan application processing. In 1999, they joined Oracle as a Software Development Manager, working on developing wireless functionality for the Oracle Application Server. Thomas then moved to Rhythm NewMedia in 2005 as a Technical Lead, where they worked on developing software for ad-supported delivery of Multimedia content to mobile devices. In 2007, they worked for both Deem Inc. and Visible Path as a Principal. At Deem Inc., they architected and wrote the first code for a new Expense application, and at Visible Path they re-architected the backend to support higher scalability and processing throughput. In 2012, they joined Twilio Inc. as Head of Engineering, IoT, and later became Head of Engineering, Messaging. During their tenure, the product doubled every single year in revenue and overall traffic, and they grew the engineering organization from a single small team into a 7-team BU spread across three different offices. In 2022, they joined AIMS as Chief Technology Officer.

Thomas Wilsher has a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder.