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About Me

Ryan Knightly

I'm a software engineer at Apple, where I build native macOS apps in Swift that power Apple's CRM workflows. I design and ship features end-to-end, and build foundational frameworks used by teams across the organization.

I've been shipping software since high school, when I published my first iOS games on the App Store. I went on to study Computer Science and Mathematics at Rice University, graduating magna cum laude, and interned at Amazon before joining Apple.

Experience

Apple

Software Engineer

Aug 2023 - Present

Build native macOS apps in Swift that power Apple's CRM workflows. Notable projects include on-device speech transcription, a real-time WebSocket notification system, and an internal AI assistant application. I also build and maintain foundational Swift frameworks used across multiple teams. Won first place out of 200 teams in the 2026 internal hackathon.

Amazon

Software Engineer Intern

May - Aug 2022

Designed and implemented a Swift framework for a new Alexa Accessories feature on iOS, integrating with AWS backends and multithreaded native APIs.

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Computational Biology Intern

Jun - Aug 2021

Built a Python web application to visualize high-dimensional lung cancer data and developed a statistical gene-correlation tool used by experimental biologists. Co-authored a published paper in JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics.

Education

Rice University

B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics

Magna Cum Laude

Relevant Coursework

Web Development Databases Secure and Cloud Computing Statistical Models for Data Science Functional Programming Cryptography Compiler Construction Operating Systems Parallel Programming Distributed Systems

Skills

Languages

Swift Python TypeScript JavaScript Java SQL C

Technologies

SwiftUI AppKit Vue.js React Node.js Unity Git Docker AWS GCP

Projects

Houston Food Bank Recipe System

Houston Food Bank Recipe System

Led a Rice Apps team to develop a recipe-searching app for the Houston Food Bank.

Used React and Node to allow searching/printing recipes by ingredients with support for multiple languages.

Moody Art Map

Moody Art Map

Worked on a team at Rice Apps to develop a mobile app to bring awareness to the public art at Rice.

Used React Native and Expo. Focused on the Node Express backend, connected it to a CMS, and created the map to display the art.

Investorprep

Investorprep

Built the iOS and Android app investorPrep.

The app teaches about investing and has over 18,000 downloads.

Knighted Games

Knighted Games

Independently wrote and published 14 different iOS applications.

Used both Xcode/Swift and Unity/C# for development. Games have more than 100,000 downloads collectively.