{"data":{"name":"Ezra Apple","headline":"Software Engineer | AI Products | Former Co-Founder","links":[{"label":"Website","href":"https://ezraapple.dev"},{"label":"GitHub","href":"https://github.com/ezraapple"},{"label":"LinkedIn","href":"https://linkedin.com/in/ezraapple"},{"label":"Email","href":"mailto:ezraapple.engineer@gmail.com"}],"education":[{"institution":"University of California, Berkeley","degree":"B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science","date":"May 2025"}],"experience":[{"organization":"Replo (YC S21)","href":"https://www.replo.app/","role":"Software Engineer, AI Agent Platform","dates":"Oct 2025 – Present","highlights":["Helped architect and launch Replo’s new AI platform for e-commerce through closed beta, open beta, and general availability, with work spanning reusable templates, agent behavior, and live page previews.","Redesigned Replo Agent’s persistent memory around compact user and project context, on-demand retrieval, and automatic curation, and shipped a user-facing memory browser.","Designed and ran agent evaluations of context and instruction changes using customer-derived and synthetic editing tasks, measuring task correctness, cost, and latency.","Led consolidation of Replo’s internal agent skills and development workflows, making engineering, design, and support knowledge discoverable and reusable across coding agents."]},{"organization":"Decyphr AI","href":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/106859432/","role":"Co-Founder & CTO","dates":"Jan 2025 – Aug 2025","highlights":["Co-founded AI video translation startup, accepted into UC Berkeley SkyDeck Pad-13 incubator program.","Owned end-to-end MVP for AI-driven video translation across 25+ languages, spanning authentication, media upload, processing orchestration, and launch site.","Ran closed beta with 10+ content creators, translating feedback into product refinements and go-to-market validation.","Architected a serverless media-processing pipeline on AWS (S3, Lambda, Step Functions, SES) with fault-tolerant retries for long-running translation jobs."]},{"organization":"Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory","href":"https://www.lbl.gov/","role":"Machine Learning Researcher","dates":"Oct 2023 – Jun 2025","highlights":["Applied random forests and Bayesian optimization to ion-source diagnostic data, modeling accelerator performance and exploring configurations to maximize ion output.","Presented findings to senior researchers supporting heavy-element synthesis research, including the element 120 program."]}],"projects":[{"name":"ShoutOut","href":"https://shoutout.sh","description":"Local-First macOS Dictation App","highlights":["Built and shipped a local-first macOS dictation app in Swift that inserts transcribed speech into other apps, with signed, notarized releases and automatic updates.","Designed a low-friction interaction model with hold-to-record, double-tap hands-free mode, menu bar controls, recording overlay feedback, and first-run permission onboarding.","Implemented swappable on-device transcription engines using Apple Speech, Apple Dictation, and WhisperKit/Core ML, with dictionary-aware cleanup and spoken-punctuation formatting."]}],"skills":[{"category":"Languages","items":["TypeScript","Python","Swift","SQL"]},{"category":"AI & Agents","items":["Agent workflows","agent evaluation","persistent memory","internal agent skills","MCP integrations"]},{"category":"ML & Data","items":["PyTorch","Hugging Face Transformers","scikit-learn","NumPy","pandas"]},{"category":"Backend & Infrastructure","items":["Node.js","tRPC","PostgreSQL","Cloudflare Workers","AWS","Docker","GitHub Actions"]},{"category":"Frontend & Desktop","items":["React","Next.js","Tailwind CSS","SwiftUI","macOS"]}],"pdfUrl":"https://ezraapple.dev/resume.pdf","pdfSha256":"c2d3f91434fdaf820a1b0918a0c85ccf974f5d7c9a990174bcf3e757cce09745"},"meta":{"schemaVersion":2,"source":"curated"}}