Patrick Harper
Senior Software Engineer, Vision Products Group at Apple
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Harper is a senior software engineer specializing in embedded systems and low-latency firmware, currently shaping AR/VR embedded architecture at Apple’s Vision Products Group. With 11 years of experience across Apple and Google, he built power and thermal management for Fuchsia and led motion-coprocessor bring-ups and kernel/firmware work for flagship Apple devices. He began his career in defense-grade embedded development at Lockheed Martin, earning hands-on experience with real-time OSes, sensors, and hardware interfaces while holding a DoD Secret clearance. Patrick combines deep C/C++ and RTOS expertise with a product-first mindset—designing for constraints like power, latency, and memory across pre- and post-silicon stages. Collected early on as a Summa Cum Laude Computer Engineering graduate from UCF, he’s unusually fluent at bridging low-level driver work with system-level architecture for emerging AR/VR platforms.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, B.S. Computer Engineering, Summa Cum Laude at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (14)
machine-learning9
operating-system8
armv87
libc7
kernel7
arm6
embedded6
cortex-m6
rtos6
bare-metal6
linux6
cortex-a6
fuchsia4
microkernel4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
baboli/SurveyApp
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:8 pushes in 18 days
julienmissial/hitsmart-ios
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
fallcssseniordesign-projectsenior-design
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