Andrew Apperley

I’m a Senior iOS Engineer with 10+ years building products people rely on every day — from Shopify’s Partner ecosystem to Pinterest’s ad platform to Dropbox Dash’s AI-powered features.

Most recently I co-led the mobile team on Dropbox Dash, where I architected and shipped Prepare for Your Day — an AI feature that synthesizes your calendar, recent files, and collaborators to brief you before every meeting. It’s the kind of product that makes your phone feel like it actually understands you.

I care deeply about the intersection of on-device intelligence and native iOS performance — building AI experiences that feel instant and native, not bolted on. I write Swift daily, think in SwiftUI and UIKit, and spend a lot of time in the seams between product thinking and engineering architecture.

Outside of work I shoot analog film, poke at low-level systems for fun (including Objective-C toolchain support for the Sega Dreamcast), and spend weekends backcountry canoeing in Ontario.