Max Cobb
AR VR Software Engineer at Apple
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMax Cobb is an AR/VR software engineer with 11 years' experience turning computer vision research into product-grade applications, currently working on visionOS at Apple. He has a strong track record across startups and scale-ups—leading AR engineering at Blippar, building industrial camera and image-capture systems at Greyparrot.ai, and later guiding developer experience and API evolution at Agora. Max contributes to open-source mobile imaging projects (notably improvements to WeScan's rectangle detection and Core Image/Vision integration) and brings practical expertise in iOS image processing, vision frameworks, and machine learning-backed capture pipelines. Based in London, he blends hands-on implementation with developer advocacy, enabling teams to adopt complex vision features more easily. An understated strength is his ability to move research prototypes into reliable production tooling used in industrial and consumer contexts.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science at The Open UniversityPhysics Mathematics Further Mathematics Pshychology, Physics Mathematics Further Mathematics Pshychology at Bedales SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc) - Incomplete Mathematics & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) - Incomplete Mathematics & Computer Science at University of Surrey
Chinese
Stackoverflow
1,203reputation
43kreached
81answers
4questions
augmented-reality
top-5%
Github Skills (17)
uiimage10
scanner10
ios10
mobile10
swift10
augmented-reality9
unit-testing9
coreimage9
coregraphics9
realitykit6
swiftui6
flutter6
scenekit6
reality-composer6
agora6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
WeTransferArchive/WeScan
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Document Scanning Made Easy for iOS
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the `WeScan` iOS project, focusing on enhancing the image scanning capabilities. They fixed bugs related to image processing, updated documentation, and added unit tests for detecting rectangles within images using Core Image and Vision frameworks. They also refactored code to align with project standards, including code formatting and function accessibility.
iosswiftscannerwt-branch-protection-two-approvalswt-branch-protection-exempt
maxxfrazer/RealityKit-CardFlip
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
An example app using Apple's new RealityKit framework
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 1 year 1 month
realitykitarkitiosswiftios13
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.