Nicolás Silva
Text Recognition ML Data Coordinator
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolás Silva is a typography-focused ML data coordinator and font engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience bridging type design and production with machine-driven text recognition workflows. He built an internationally recognized career as an award-winning typeface designer—creator of the Google-recognized font Poly and a Bronze Cannes Lion winner—before joining Apple to design, QA and produce complex multiscript fonts and text-shaping engines for CJK, Arabic, Thai and Indic scripts. At Apple he progressed from contract font engineer to QA and now coordinates text recognition ML data, combining deep practical expertise in FontLab, Glyphs, AFDKO and Python with hands-on knowledge of OpenType shaping. He has also consulted for major foundries, expanded multilingual character sets, and taught typeface production and script systems at the postgraduate level. Notably, his work often focuses on minority and complex-script support—turning typographic nuance into scalable production pipelines used across platforms.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Graphic Design, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor's Degree, Graphic Design, Magna Cum Laude at Universidad de los Andes (VE)Postgraduate Certificate, Typeface Design, Postgraduate Certificate, Typeface Design at Universidad de Buenos Aires
Spanish, English
Github Skills (29)
bash-shell10
phonetics10
width10
google-fonts10
rounded-corners9
mod-manager9
opentype9
fonts9
opentype-fonts9
variable-fonts9
standardized8
typeface8
font-editor8
python-scripts8
python7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zar-nicolas20/GlyphsApp-Package-Install
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Bash shell to install most of the Scripts and Pluging of Glyphs App
Contributions:48 commits, 5 PRs, 47 pushes in 7 months
bash-shell
Omnibus-Type/AsapCondensed
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Asap Condensed offers a standardized character width on all styles.
Contributions:10 commits, 1 comment in 1 year
character-widthwidthasapstylescondensed
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