Wil Shipley is a veteran Mac and iOS engineer with 36 years of programming experience and 18 years in senior roles, currently building the iOS Home app at Apple from his San Francisco base. A serial entrepreneur and co-founder of The Omni Group and Delicious Monster, he co-created OmniWeb, OmniGraffle and Delicious Library—products that influenced macOS app design and earned multiple Apple Design Awards. He combines deep systems-level chops (shaders, parsers, daemons) with consumer-facing product instincts, having even contributed technology later absorbed into Apple’s CoreGraphics. Known for porting games to NeXT and macOS early on, he pairs a playful, long-term perspective with pragmatic shipping discipline. Unusually, he also runs small ventures (and a notably successful real-estate holding company) alongside sustained hands-on engineering at top-tier companies.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Almost-B.S., Computer Science, Almost-B.S., Computer Science at University of Washington
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Wil Shipley - Senior IOS Home Application Engineer