Matt Wright
Software Engineer at Apple Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatt Wright is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in macOS and iPhone platforms, Cocoa, Objective-C, and low-level x86/PPC/ARM assembler. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has been contributing to Apple since 2010 after earlier engineering roles at IBM and Transitive. His background blends high-level application development with deep systems and assembly expertise, enabling robust, performance-conscious solutions across Apple platforms. Trained with an MEng in Computer Science from the University of York, he brings formal engineering discipline to pragmatic product shipping. Colleagues rely on him for tricky platform integrations and for translating hardware-aware optimizations into maintainable code. Despite a long tenure at a major tech company, he maintains a hands-on approach to core implementation details rather than purely managerial work.
18 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computer Science, MEng, Computer Science at University of York
Github Skills (38)
3d-printer10
irssi10
firmware9
rust7
compiler6
esp326
window-manager6
embedded5
usb-serial5
led-controller5
hardware5
multicore5
platformio5
driver4
neovim4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MacIrssi/MILibs
Nov 2009 - Feb 2011
Contributions:38 commits in 1 year 3 months
MacIrssi/MacIrssi
Jul 2008 - Jun 2012
Irssi but with a Cocoa interface
Contributions:497 commits in 3 years 11 months
irssi
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.