Summary
Dain Kaplan is an engineering manager leading Global Siri at Apple with 14 years of experience at the intersection of software engineering, applied NLP and ML. He progressed through hands-on roles from Siri software engineer to data science & engineering manager, and now oversees global voice assistant engineering from Tokyo’s Chiyoda. Dain holds a PhD in NLP from Tokyo Institute of Technology and pairs deep academic expertise with practical delivery—shipping production ML systems, multi-locale web platforms, and realtime inventory/ad-generation services. Bilingual in Japanese and English, he has a track record of bridging international teams and research collaborations (including IARPA-funded work) to production-grade systems. Colleagues describe him as a leader who still dives into code and system design while scaling cross-functional teams and complex ML pipelines.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Natural Language Processing (NLP) at Tokyo Institute of Technology
B.A., Japanese Language & Literature, B.A., Japanese Language & Literature at University of California, Irvine
English, Japanese