Igor Avramovic

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Apple

   May 2021 — Present

   Leading the Apple Cloud AI Studio and Developer Experiences organization, delivering the core developer platform and tooling for the Apple AI & Data Platform. This developer platform and experience ecosystem serves Apple’s internal machine learning, agent development, data processing and data analytics needs for thousands of researchers and engineers- Incepted the Apple Cloud AI Studio as a unified development platform and experience that bridges cloud infrastructure capabilities with the engineering development flow, accelerating the machine learning, data preparation, and agent development lifecycles- Directed the development of Apple Cloud AI orchestration services to enable a seamless transition from prototype to production, creating rich, reusable, and scalable workflows for complex machine learning and agentic requirements- Integrated evaluations, experimentation, ML data, features and training infrastructure into a Unified Platform Experience, creating a high-velocity environment that reduces context switching and ensures data-to-model lineage- Established the infrastructure and application experiences for Agentic Applications and assistants integrated into the Apple Data Platform ecosystem, including frameworks for model evaluation and hosting- Spearheaded the creation of machine learning infrastructure and a recipe library enabling rapid, templated code generation for complex workflows- Optimized interactive analytics by establishing a multi-tier service used by thousands of engineers to query petabytes of data in seconds- Created a roadmap to improve Engineering Velocity by providing a unified data portal and lineage system that reduced production alert investigations from weeks to days and reduced privacy/legal reviews by 5x- Led a Cost Efficiency observability initiative that achieved a 30% reduction in costs, resulting in millions of dollars in annual savings by optimizing hardware for batch processing and enforcing spot instance migration

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

  2004 — 2008

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Master's degree, Computer Science

  2019

Skills

• C#
• Distributed Systems
• Software Development
• Win32 Api
• .net
• Software Engineering
• C++
• Software Design
• Object Oriented Design
• Agile Methodologies
• Scrum
• Web Services
• Java