Alykhan Kanji
Engineering Manager at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlykhan Kanji is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience at Apple, currently contributing to Messages after leading Proactive Intelligence engineering efforts. He combines deep expertise in Python, Java, Swift and C/C++ with hands-on experience across full-stack web and mobile development, and a track record of shipping intelligence and personalization features to hundreds of millions of devices. His work spans NLP, named-entity recognition, heuristics for app suggestions, and building internal visualization and feedback tools that informed product decisions. Alykhan is passionate about Open Data and building for the greater good, and is comfortable both as an individual contributor and as a manager who mentors teams. Notably, he accelerated provider adoption by 90% in a cloud localization project through clever heuristics and prototyping, reflecting a pragmatic, results-driven engineering style.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (48)
knife10
campus10
static-analyzer10
linter10
swift10
kanji10
github-api9
backend9
command-line-tool8
homebrew8
javascript8
snowflake7
git7
ruby7
go7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sleekbyte/sleekbyte.github.io
May 2015 - Feb 2021
:necktie: We are Sleekbyte.
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
AgaKhanFoundation/WCB
Mar 2017 - Apr 2021
Apps backend
Contributions:4 reviews, 72 commits, 75 PRs in 4 years 1 month
backend
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