Aaron Zinman

San Francisco, CA azinman.com
Charismatic full-stack engineer and 0-to-1 specialist. Combines deep technical ability with design sensibility and user empathy to find the right problems, prototype relentlessly, and ship. Most at home collaborating in the space between research and product.

Experience

Machine Learning Engineering Manager
Apple, Cupertino, CA
Leading team building future Apple experiences. Conceived and led prototyping for intelligence-focused features shipping in upcoming OS releases. Cross-functional leadership across SWE teams and design studio.
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Apple, Cupertino, CA
Vision, design, and tech lead on future-looking AI+UX projects. Shipped Visual Intelligence from prototype to keynote. Major contributor to Apple Intelligence features including summarization and writing tools. Architected key components of Stickers overhaul in iOS 17.
Senior Software Engineer / Prototype Engineer
Apple, Cupertino, CA
Experience Prototyping (Vision Products Group) and Siri Proactive teams. R&D for ML-driven system experiences. Shipped Lock Screen focus experience in iOS 16. Led spatial computing contextual-awareness efforts. 3 issued patents.
(Senior) Software Engineer
Ginger.io, San Francisco, CA
Full-stack engineer (Python/Django, iOS, infrastructure). Led iOS to 99.5%+ crash-free sessions. Built core data science infrastructure.
iOS Consultant
Google, Mountain View, CA
Built iOS/Swift implementation of Vanadium distributed systems framework. Contributed patch to Golang linker.
CEO and Co-founder
Empirical Interfaces Inc., San Francisco, CA
Raised $1MM from Floodgate, Greylock, and angels to build AI-powered social apps. Shipped multiple iOS products.

Education

PhD, Media Arts and Sciences (MIT Media Lab) 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SM, Media Arts and Sciences (MIT Media Lab) 2006
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Cognitive Science with Specialization in Computation 2004
University of California, San Diego

Skills

Technical Range: iOS/macOS · ML/AI · Interaction design · Full-stack · Embedded · Distributed systems · Prototyping
Languages: Swift, Python, Objective-C, Go, Java, Scala, JavaScript, C, C++, HTML/CSS, SQL

Patents

US-11973894-B2: Utilizing context information with an electronic device (2024)
US-11438452: Propagating context information in a privacy preserving manner (2022)
US-11361473: Including a physical object based on context (2022)