Umer Khan
Engineering Manager at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUmer Khan is an Engineering Manager with 10 years of experience leading consumer and health-oriented platform engineering at Apple from Cupertino. He directs cross-platform Home initiatives—Home app on iOS and macOS, HomeKit integrations across HomePod, Apple TV, WatchOS and Siri—while previously steering technical work for ResearchKit and CareKit. Umer blends hands-on iOS development chops (notably fixing accessibility and split‑view camera bugs in the widely used ResearchKit framework) with strategic product leadership across tightly integrated hardware‑software ecosystems. He is skilled at refactoring UI state and accessibility flows to deliver robust, user‑facing features at scale. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer-manager who moves seamlessly between code-level fixes and multi-team coordination. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science from the University of Notre Dame.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
Urdu, English
Github Skills (7)
accessibility10
swift10
debug10
ios10
user-interface10
ui-components10
ui-design9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ResearchKit/ResearchKit
Aug 2015 - May 2017
ResearchKit is an open source software framework that makes it easy to create apps for medical research or for other research projects.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:2 releases, 266 commits, 108 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Umer focused on addressing a bug in the image capture step, specifically regarding its behavior in split view. They refactored UI state logic, corrected issues related to the display of the camera unavailable label and template images. In addition, they added a text description to the slider used for accessibility and fixed an accessibility issue in the value picker.
open-source-softwareresearchkitmedicalsoftware-framework
umerkhan-apple/ResearchKit
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:233 pushes, 101 branches, 2 tags in 6 months
open-source-softwareresearchkitmedicalsoftware-framework
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