10 Apple data scientists
Staff Data Scientist, Senior Data Scientist and Senior Manager, Data Science are among the titles these ten Apple data scientists hold today. A reader can learn what data science at Apple involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
Cody Sykes
LinkedInExperience: Data Science Manager - Software Engineering · Apple
Cody Sykes has been Data Science Manager - Software Engineering at Apple since June 2025. The profile also lists Senior Data Science Manager at Reddit, Inc. (2021–2024), an analytics role in Globalization at Netflix (2019–2021) and Strategy & Operations Manager and Analytical Lead roles at Google.
Farshad Kooti
LinkedInExperience: Principal Data Scientist · Apple
Farshad Kooti has been a Principal Data Scientist at Apple since January 2025, based in Mountain View, after serving as Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft AI from 2021 to 2025. The profile also lists Applied Scientist at Facebook from 2016 to 2021 and research and data science internships at Yahoo and Facebook.
Indu Mukundan
LinkedInExperience: Senior Manager, Data Science · Apple
Indu Mukundan has been Senior Manager, Data Science at Apple since September 2025, after serving as Data Science Manager (2020–2025) and Staff Data Scientist (2017–2020) at Apple. The profile describes a data science specialty in monetization, product-led growth, funnel conversion, customer retention and lifetime value.
Michael Tiernay
LinkedInExperience: Principal Data Scientist · Apple
Michael Tiernay has been a Principal Data Scientist at Apple since May 2022, after serving as Senior Data Scientist at Netflix from 2018 to 2022. The profile also lists Senior Data Scientist at Edmunds (2015–2018) and describes a breadth of experience that includes building machine learning models.
Nigrah Bamb
LinkedInExperience: Staff Data Scientist · Apple
Nigrah Bamb has been a Staff Data Scientist at Apple since October 2025, after serving as Senior Data Scientist (2022–2025) and Data Scientist (2020–2022) at Apple. The profile also lists Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte from 2016 to 2018 and graduate study in Applied Data Science at the University of Southern California.
Niyousha Mohammadshafie
LinkedInExperience: Senior Data Scientist · Apple
Niyousha Mohammadshafie has been a Senior Data Scientist at Apple since September 2024, based in Sunnyvale, after serving as a Data Scientist at Apple from 2022 to 2024. The profile also lists Data Scientist at bodo.ai (2021–2022) and research assistant roles at the University of Pittsburgh and Cleveland State University.
Otto Godwin
LinkedInExperience: Staff Data Scientist · Apple
Otto Godwin has been a Staff Data Scientist at Apple since September 2024, after serving as Senior Data Scientist (2022–2024) and Data Scientist (2021–2022) at Apple. The profile headline reads AI/ML Data Scientist at Apple and describes skills in mathematical statistics, hypothesis testing and predictive modelling.
Prabhat Turlapati
LinkedInExperience: Senior Data Scientist · Apple
Prabhat Turlapati has been a Senior Data Scientist at Apple since April 2024, after serving as a Data Scientist at Apple from 2020 to 2024. The profile also lists Data Scientist at SLB (2019–2020) and describes focus areas that include time series forecasting and analysis.
Ray Kim
LinkedInExperience: Data Scientist · Apple
Ray Kim has been a Data Scientist at Apple since June 2025, based in Cupertino, and the profile lists the department as Research. The profile also lists Data Scientist at TikTok (2024–2025) and Research Data Analyst at the University of California, Berkeley (2022–2024).
Tianlin Duan
LinkedInExperience: Senior Data Scientist, AIML Data · Apple
Tianlin Duan has been Senior Data Scientist, AIML Data at Apple since April 2023, after serving as Data Scientist, Acquisition Algorithms at Stitch Fix from 2020 to 2023. The profile also lists Data Scientist, Experimentation & Personalization at eBay from 2018 to 2020.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's focus to your question, since experimentation, forecasting, machine learning and data science management each call for different experience. Consider where the person worked beforehand, since data scientists who came from other consumer technology companies can compare how the work differs.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide which analysis or model is worth building for a question in your area?
- 02How do you get the people who use your results to act on them?
- 03How has the way you measure success in your role changed over time?
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