
Engineer | Product
Harry is an experienced technology product leader with an established track record of leading teams from idea to launch across multiple verticals and domains. Most notably, he joined Apple in 2016 starting his work within Apple’s special projects ecosystem. He was one of the core engineers building intelligent music experiences for Apple’s unreleased HomePod. As a technical lead for Siri's music intelligence, he redesigned Siri's search engine to enable personalised music experiences for each family member through voice recognition (patented), then moved on to lead multiple teams on Apple Vision Pro, responsible for shipping Siri's ability to understand complex verbal and on-screen references with eye tracking, and migrating Siri’s existing intelligence to Apple’s first spatial operating system, visionOS. Harry is now a software architect & co-founder of a product driven venture firm — Founder Park. He has co-created products that have been used by millions of people, on billions of devices. Harry has received 8 patents for his contributions to AI and Software (https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Harry+SIMMONDS&assignee=Apple+Inc.).
apple.com
amazon.com
microsoft.com
dawnaerospace.com
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Software Engineer / Architect
Stealth
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• Full-time
Dec 2024 - Present
Founding Managing Partner
Founder Park
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• Full-time
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
San Francisco, CA
Lead Software Engineer / Architect
Dawn Aerospace
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Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Engineering Manager, AIML
Apple
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• Full-time
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
Seattle, Washington
Senior Software Engineer, AIML
Apple
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Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
Cupertino, California
Software Engineer, Siri
Apple
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Sep 2016 - Mar 2019
Cupertino, California
Software Developer
Distributed Digital Music Archives & Library (DDMAL) McGill University
May 2014 - Aug 2014
McGill University