10 Apple engineering leaders
Hardware and software engineering at Apple meet in this group: the senior vice president of Hardware Technology and a former senior vice president of Hardware Engineering sit alongside leaders of Core OS, OS runtimes, services engineering, Vision Products and mobile retail apps. Nine are in current Apple roles. A call fits teams lining up silicon, hardware and operating system work for one launch, or scaling an engineering group around a platform.
Professionals to explore
Andrew Myrick
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering, Core Runtimes · Apple
Andrew Myrick, Senior Director of Engineering, Core Runtimes at Apple since September 2025, names OS Kernel and Runtimes as the area. Previous Apple roles were Director of Engineering, Core Runtimes (2025), Director of Engineering, Platform Services & Operations (2021–2025) and Senior Engineering Manager roles in Platform Services & Operations (2020–2021) and Mac Platform (2016–2020), a fit for questions on kernel and runtime work beneath the operating system.
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Bryan Yeargin
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Apple
Leading Apple Services Engineering Architecture, Developer Experience, and Platforms development is Bryan Yeargin's role as Senior Director of Engineering at Apple since October 2023. Bryan was also Director Of Engineering (2020–2023) and held an Apple Media Products Architecture and Velocity role (2014–2023), so services architecture and developer tooling questions fit here.
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Carlos Ribas
LinkedInExperience: VP, Hardware Engineering · Apple
Carlos Ribas has been VP, Hardware Engineering at Apple since March 2007, based in Cupertino. Holding that one hardware engineering vice president role since 2007 makes Carlos a fit for questions on how Apple's hardware engineering has been run over many product cycles.
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Dan Riccio
LinkedInExperience: Former Senior Vice President, Hardware Engineering · Apple
Dan Riccio's Apple roles, none current, are Vice President, Engineering (2021–2024), Senior Vice President, Hardware Engineering (2012–2021), Vice President, iPad Division (2010–2012), Vice President, Product Design (2000–2010) and Senior Director, Product Design (1999–2000). Dan can speak to hardware engineering from the senior vice president seat.
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Filip Krsmanovic
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering - Mobile Apps, Mobile Commerce, and Messaging Apps · Apple
Filip Krsmanovic has led Mobile Apps, Mobile Commerce, and Messaging Apps engineering at Apple as Director of Engineering since October 2017, an org that spans customer-facing mobile apps, commerce, retail and point of sale apps, and messaging, with a team of 500+. Earlier Apple roles cover mobile apps and mobile commerce management (2010–2017) and Online Checkout and Payments (2008–2010).
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Fletcher Rothkopf
LinkedInExperience: Former Vice President of Engineering · Apple
Fletcher Rothkopf became Vice President of Engineering at Apple in July 2026, after Vice President of Product Design (2025–2026), Senior Director of Engineering, Vision Products Group (2019–2025), Director of Product Design, Vision Products Group (2016–2019) and Director of Product Design, WATCH (2015–2016). Fletcher fits questions on how product design and engineering work together on a new device category.
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Johny. Srouji
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Hardware Technology · Apple
Johny. Srouji has been Senior Vice President, Hardware Technology at Apple since December 2015, after Vice President, Hardware Technology (2013–2015), VP Of VLSI (2011–2013) and Senior Director Handheld Chips & VLSI (2008–2011), plus a Senior Vice President role for 2014–2016. That chip and VLSI path makes Johny the reference point for how Apple organizes in-house silicon engineering.
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Jon Andrews
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Core OS Software Engineering · Apple
Vice President, Core OS Software Engineering at Apple since October 2019, Jon Andrews previously held Senior Director, Core OS, SW Engineering (2016–2019) Senior Director, Core Platform, SW Engineering (2015–2016) and Director, Core Platform, SW Engineering (2012–2015). Jon's work covers developing operating systems, core technology and porting to new hardware, a fit for questions on moving an OS to new chips or devices.
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Nathan Gupta
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Hardware Technology Engineering · Apple
Nathan Gupta has been Senior Director, Hardware Technology Engineering at Apple since March 2022, after Director (2017–2022) and Sr. Engineering Manager (2009–2017) at Apple. A Product Development role at Ford Motor Company (2000–2009) comes before that, so Nathan can compare hardware technology engineering at Apple with automotive product development.
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Yaniv Gur
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Apple
Yaniv Gur manages the engineering teams for products including iWork for iCloud as Senior Director of Engineering at Apple since December 2009. Earlier Apple roles are Director of Engineering (2007–2009) and Senior Engineering Manager (2001–2008), and Yaniv was President & Co-Founder of Blue Fish Labs, LLP (2000–2001), useful for questions on building productivity apps for the web.
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Choose the right perspective
For hardware questions, Johny Srouji, Nathan Gupta and Carlos Ribas are current and Dan Riccio is the former senior vice president. On the software side, Jon Andrews and Andrew Myrick work on the operating system core, Bryan Yeargin on services platforms, and Yaniv Gur and Filip Krsmanovic on apps; Fletcher Rothkopf bridges product design and engineering for new device categories.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Apple line up chip, hardware and operating system schedules so they converge on one product launch?
- 02When Apple moves its operating systems onto new hardware, how are the software and hardware engineering teams organized for it?
- 03How does Apple structure an engineering organization that ships both consumer apps and retail point of sale apps?
About this directory
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