Vincent Herrin
Executive Director Of Engineering at RR Donnelley
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolVincent Herrin is an executive engineering leader with over 20 years in software engineering and a decade of senior management experience, currently serving as Executive Director of Engineering in Austin. He combines hands-on development in C#, .NET, Swift and Java with a proven track record of scaling high-performing teams and building cloud and developer-experience products at companies like IBM, State Street, and Vericast. Vincent has led cross-functional organizations from individual contributor teams to 50+ engineers, driving product-focused delivery for complex UI tools and cloud SDKs—his open‑source work includes meaningful contributions to the Watson Swift SDK. A pragmatic, user-centered thinker with a master’s in Information Systems and Technology, he’s known for hiring and mentoring talent, streamlining recruitment practices, and translating technical strategy into measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at Park UniversityMaster's Degree Information Systems and Technology, Master's Degree Information Systems and Technology at South University
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Github Skills (15)
swift10
api10
apidoc10
xml-parsing10
model-driven-development9
model-driven9
modeling9
file-upload9
model-building9
xcode6
alchemyapi6
ibm-watson6
watson-conversation6
visual-recognition6
ibm-cloud6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
watson-developer-cloud/swift-sdk
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
:iphone: The Watson Swift SDK enables developers to quickly add Watson Cognitive Computing services to their Swift applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 217 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Vincent's initial commit added AEXML.swift, a Swift library for parsing XML. Subsequent commits reveal the development of an internal vision service API. The user refactored code, moved core calls, and implemented a file upload feature. The user created the Alchemy Vision project including models and tests.
iphoneibm-watson-speechcognitivecognitive-computingsdk
IBM-Swift/swift-watson-sdk
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 69 commits, 20 PRs in 5 months
watson-developer-cloudsdkcloud-developerswiftswift-sdk
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