Mary Kery is a research scientist at Apple with 11 years of experience studying and improving developer experience, especially for data and ML coding workflows. With a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon and a BA in Computer Science from Wellesley, she combines rigorous HCI methods with hands-on tool design to support model development and exploratory data analysis. Her work bridges research and teaching—she’s passionate about training students in technical rigor alongside ethical, human-centered ML and design. Prior internships and research roles at Apple, Bloomberg, UC Berkeley, and NC State reflect a sustained focus on practical UX for code, and she brings an uncommon blend of academic depth and product-facing research to developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Slade School of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at Wellesley College
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Computer Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
Contributions:60 commits, 4 PRs, 61 pushes in 4 years 11 months
cssjavascriptreact
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.