Summary
Avery Vine is a Localization Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and internationalizing Apple platform software, currently based in San Francisco after moving from Ottawa. They specialize in making user interfaces and underlying functionality work seamlessly across languages and regions, collaborating closely with engineering teams, international QA centers, translators, and PMs. Avery has hands-on experience across iOS and backend stacks—Swift, Objective-C, Java, GraphQL and Kubernetes—bringing both product-facing feature work and internal tooling to improve localization workflows. At TripAdvisor they contributed to MVVM refactors and a Java microservice for ad purchasing, showing comfort across mobile and server-side code. Known for strong communication and cross-functional execution, they combine rigorous code quality with a practical focus on shipping global-ready software. An interesting non-obvious detail: their background includes research on optimization for moving-target pathfinding, reflecting a longstanding interest in algorithmic problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 11/12 GPA, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 11/12 GPA at Carleton University
Nepean High School
English, French