Robby Walker
Senior Director, Answers, Knowledge, And Information
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobby Walker is a seasoned technology leader based in Mountain View, California, currently leading Answers, Knowledge, and Information at Apple after a decade-plus of senior roles shaping Siri, language, and information intelligence. He combines hands-on engineering roots—from early software roles at GoDaddy and Google and founding startups like Cue and Fitnio—with strategic leadership as Director and Senior Director at Apple. Robby has a track record of building consumer-facing intelligence and assistant experiences, and he brings an entrepreneur’s instincts to product strategy and team scaling. His background includes both startup founding and venture experience as a General Partner, giving him rare fluency across product, engineering, and investor perspectives. Despite a formal education begun at Arizona State, his career demonstrates a bias toward learning through building and shipping complex, real-world AI and language systems.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Arizona State University
Github Skills (61)
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internet-of-things10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rwalker-apple/connectedhomeip
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
Project Connected Home over IP is a new Working Group within the Zigbee Alliance. This Working Group plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet.
Contributions:9 PRs, 254 pushes, 112 branches in 6 months
smartthingshome-automationconnectedtenethome-assistant
rwalker-apple/openweave-core
Mar 2020 - May 2020
openWeave is a home area network application protocol stack designed to enable asynchronous, symmetric, device-to-device, device-to-mobile and device-to-cloud communications for control path and data path messaging.
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
asynchronousrcsymmetriccommunicationscommunication
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