Summary
Heriberto Nieto is a software engineering manager with 13 years of experience leading teams to prototype and ship machine learning- and sensing-driven user experiences at Apple. He has progressed from hands-on roles in Siri Advanced Development—contributing to features like Raise to Speak and Announce Messages—to managing cross-functional teams that blend HCI, sensing, and ML. His background spans low-level C++/Java development for scientific tools and mass spectrometry, immersive visualization and VR from his TACC work, and automation/QA in large-scale web environments, giving him a rare mix of research-minded systems engineering and product delivery. Based in Seattle and trained in electrical and computer engineering at UT Austin, he excels at translating experimental interaction concepts into production-ready features while mentoring engineers to ship polished, user-facing innovations.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelors of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Spanish