Michael Trent
Sr. Software Engineer at Apple
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMichael 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
Github Skills (18)
modular10
llvm10
toolchain10
compiler10
clang10
reduction8
mono7
llvm-ir6
ethereum6
blockchain6
cling5
hosts5
upstream5
database-access5
evm4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
llvm/llvm-project
Dec 2019 - May 2024
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years 5 months
compilerstechnologiesclangsubmittoolchain
earl/llvm-mirror
Dec 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:22 commits in 1 year 9 months
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.