Eric Appel
Director Of Engineering, Disney On IOS, TvOS And VisionOS at The Walt Disney Company
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolEric Appel is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building high-quality consumer experiences, currently heading Disney+ engineering for iOS, tvOS, and visionOS. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Apple platforms and interaction design with a proven track record of scaling teams and design systems across large product portfolios at Disney Streaming and Nike. Eric has repeatedly bridged product, design, and engineering to deliver polished, discovery-driven UX while also founding cross-platform initiatives earlier in his career at Intel. Based in Hillsboro, Oregon, he’s comfortable running both strategic architecture and day-to-day delivery, and has a knack for turning platform-level investments—like reusable app generators and design systems—into faster, more consistent shipping across clients.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's in Computer Science, Bachelor's in Computer Science at Oregon State University
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Github Skills (26)
ios10
parser10
elevate10
parsing10
swift10
macos10
objective-c9
json9
xcode9
cocoapods9
carthage8
composable8
logger8
observer7
logging7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Nike-Inc/Elevate
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
Elevate is a JSON parsing framework that leverages Swift to make parsing simple, reliable and composable.
Contributions:4 releases, 77 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 4 months
cocoapodsleverageselevateparsingreliable
EricAppel/Elevate
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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