Summary
Ritika Kanade is an engineering manager at Apple with 11 years of experience building and scaling back-end systems for iCloud. She progressed from senior software engineer to manager within Apple’s platform team, bringing deep hands-on expertise in distributed systems and cloud services. Based in Seattle, she balances technical leadership with teaching as an adjunct professor at Seattle University and community service as board president of Pottery Northwest. Her background spans startups, research labs, and industry internships (including Uber, CERN, and Rakuten), reflecting a strong blend of academic rigor and production engineering. Outside of day-to-day work she’s driven by entrepreneurship and plans to build something of her own, combining product instincts with platform-level experience. Colleagues would describe her as a technical leader who mentors others while shipping reliable, large-scale infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, French, Hindi, Marathi, Japanese, Spanish