Summary
Michael Trent is a seasoned software generalist and engineering leader with over three decades of OS and application experience and a long tenure driving core system and app features at Apple. He has repeatedly combined hands-on engineering—shipping text and UI frameworks, cross-platform libraries, and tools like dyld/ld64/Mach-O support—with people leadership, hiring and managing small to mid-sized teams across Developer Tools, iWork, and Health. Known for owning codebases end-to-end, he has maintained MATLAB, Swift, and Objective-C projects and contributed to multiple major macOS, iOS, tvOS releases and public product demos. His work spans deep system-level engineering (linkers, binary formats, launch/build performance) to polished user-facing features (Notes, charting, accessibility), showing rare breadth across platform layers. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with a history of visible, demo-ready deliveries seen in press events and commercials.
8 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Beloit College
English