Summary
Cliff Panos is a Senior iOS Software Engineer and product-minded technologist with nine years of experience building system-level features used by hundreds of millions of people, including Control Center, Dynamic Island, and the Action Button at Apple. A Georgia Tech CS alum with HCI training and an incoming HBS MBA, he blends pixel-level craftsmanship with strategic product thinking, regularly bridging design, engineering, and go-to-market teams. He ships infrastructure and UX improvements—presenting developer sessions at WWDC—and has rotated across Watch Faces, System UI, and Liquid Glass redesign work, demonstrating deep systems expertise across iPhone, iPad, and watchOS. Cliff also designs delightful consumer products: his iOS puzzle game Unfoldit has 45k+ downloads and a 4.9★ rating, reflecting his focus on enjoyable, educational experiences. Recently he augmented his engineering background with business and AI work at Databricks, building an offer-experimentation platform and a multi-agent AI system that reduced sales response times from days to seconds. Based in Boston, he’s especially interested in opportunities at the intersection of AI, product, and climate or tech-for-good initiatives.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate Program, High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate Program at Winter Park High School
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
IB Diploma, HL Math, English, & History; SL Physics, Spanish, & Psychology, IB Diploma, HL Math, English, & History; SL Physics, Spanish, & Psychology at International Baccalaureate
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Harvard Business School
English, Spanish, Greek