Ariel Young
Software Engineer at Apple
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAriel Young is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building embedded systems, camera pipelines, and networking components, currently on the software engineering team at Apple. They bring deep low-level C/C++ firmware expertise combined with modern Rust development—having built user-mode networking drivers, IPC libraries, and optimized memory allocators for real-time camera services. Ariel has shipped production tooling across hardware and software boundaries, from UFS device flashing and IoT modules to machine-vision pipelines that combine Azure Kinect depth data with high-frame-rate RGB sensors. Their background includes tuning tight control loops for industrial hardware and building end-to-end test clients that verify visual fidelity with structural similarity metrics. Based in San Diego with a BS in Computer Engineering from UC San Diego, Ariel excels at bridging legacy C++ systems with newer Rust components while preserving API compatibility. A practical problem-solver, they often improve manufacturing and deployment workflows as well as core runtime efficiency.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (32)
javascript10
ios10
safari10
linux10
browser10
webkit10
gtk10
macos10
spotify8
daemon8
discord-bot7
compile6
sublime-text6
rust5
plugin5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AriYoung00/TowerDefense
Oct 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
AriYoung00/WebKit
Jun 2024 - Jul 2026
Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.
Contributions:108 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 1 month
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