Justin Wood
Senior Engineering Manager at Apple
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Wood is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of experience building and managing core Apple services, from iChat and the Apple Push Notification Service to FaceTime, Phone, Messages, and Home. Currently Senior Engineering Manager in Los Altos, he leads Apple’s contributions to the Matter standard, translating complex connectivity specs into shipped platform capabilities. He combines deep systems and backend expertise with product-first management, having been the primary developer for early APNS clients and later stewarded device-to-device discovery and delivery at scale. Justin is also an active contributor to the connectedhomeip (Matter) open-source project, focusing on setup payload and QR generation work that bridges spec and implementation. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who grows teams around hard, cross-cutting technical problems. He holds a BSCh in Computer Science from Queen’s University and brings rare continuity across multiple generations of Apple consumer services.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSCH, Computer Science, BSCH, Computer Science at Queen's University
Github Skills (14)
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matter-js10
microchip10
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system-on-chip10
smart-device9
homeconnect9
internet-of-things9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
project-chip/connectedhomeip
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Matter (formerly Project CHIP) creates more connections between more objects, simplifying development for manufacturers and increasing compatibility for consumers, guided by the Connectivity Standards Alliance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 4156 reviews, 698 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Justin's commits primarily focused on modifying code related to the setup payload functionality of the connectedhomeip project. These changes included reverting specific modifications to the Base45 setup payload, as well as modifications to the QR code generator, the setup payload itself, and test code related to these features. The contributions involve changes to various source files within the setup_payload directory, indicating work within a well-defined functional area.
connectivity-standards-alliancebuild-with-matterguidedzephyrconnectivity
vivien-apple/connectedhomeip-1
Jul 2020 - Oct 2024
Project Connected Home over IP is a new Working Group within the Zigbee Alliance. This Working Group plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet.
Contributions:81 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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