Summary
Charles Ying is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 15+ years building high-performance mobile, web, and graphics-driven products, currently leading teams at Apple. He combines deep systems and UI expertise—from iOS Core Animation and rendering engines to scalable web frameworks—with a founder's instinct for product and design, proven by founding PixVerse and early work at Flipboard. His career spans startups and large companies where he shipped platform-level work (Trilithium for PlayStation, Flipboard Pages, and mobile middleware at Openwave) and led cross-disciplinary teams through product and performance challenges. Comfortable in dynamic languages and native stacks alike, he blends hands-on architecture with people leadership to deliver polished user experiences. Based in California, he is especially drawn to early-stage innovation and bringing animated, interactive interfaces into mainstream products. A subtle differentiator: he repeatedly turns graphics and interaction prototypes into production platforms that scale across devices and channels.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California at Berkeley