Aaron Zinman
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Zinman is a Senior Software Engineer at Apple with 16 years of experience blending research-grade machine learning, full‑stack engineering, and product R&D to prototype ambitious intelligence-driven experiences. Trained as an MIT Media Lab PhD and formerly a founder at Empirical, he shapes vision with leadership then executes end-to-end—from UX and iOS clients to scalable backends in Scala, Python, Go, or C++. His work focuses on teaching machines to “speak fluent human” by modeling social interaction and language, combining Bayesian and graphical-model approaches with emerging deep learning methods. Comfortable across systems architecture, visualization, and unsupervised NLP, he brings a designer’s sensibility to consumer-friendly interaction. Based in San Francisco, he repeatedly ships early prototypes for multi-year incubation efforts and evangelizes forward-looking intelligence product directions. A patient, philosophically minded engineer, he often tackles the subtle cultural and social boundaries that complicate language-driven systems.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoSM, Media Arts & Sciences, SM, Media Arts & Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Birmingham University
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (141)
kinect10
golang9
system-information9
swift9
programming-language9
xcode9
viewcontroller9
bidirectional8
jsqmessagesviewcontroller8
client-server8
interpreter8
messenger8
messaging8
c-library8
logger8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vanadium/swift
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:46 commits in 6 months
doug/depthjs
Nov 2010 - Jul 2011
Contributions:85 commits in 7 months
javascriptkinectinteractmicrosoftweb-page
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