# Julia Aiello > Software Engineer at Apple Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/juliaaiello Technical artist. Always seeking to combine my passion for art and technology to create compelling experiences. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer, Input Experience @ Apple Jan 2025 – Present | Cupertino, California, United States ### Software Engineer, Instructional Products @ Apple Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Cupertino, California, United States ### Designer @ Apple Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Cupertino, California, United States The Instructional Products group creates welcome content and instructive guides for new releases of Apple devices and software. Develop tools to streamline design workflows and pipelines for animators using Python, Javascript, Swift, and C++. Design and animate content for the Tips app on iOS and iPadOS devices. ### Mentee @ Women in Animation Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 ### Design Intern @ Apple Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Cupertino, California, United States Designed and developed prototypes for improving the Tips app user experience. Worked closely with designers and engineers across teams to establish a design vision and receive feedback throughout iterations. ### Research Assistant, HCI Lab @ UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Gainesville, Fl Lead a team of undergraduate students in developing a human-machine interface using Unity that tests electromyography signals for lower arm prosthetic usage. The simulation (Using the Vive and Index headset) consists of various tasks for individuals using the prosthetic attachment to evaluate its accuracy, such as the clothespin task often used in physical therapy. ### Teaching Assistant @ UF Computer & Information Science & Engineering Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Gainesville, Florida, United States CAP3034: Computer-Aided Animation, Jan 2020 - May 2020 - Introduces topics related to computer-aided animation. Rigging for forward and inverse kinematics. Skin weighting. Morph targets. Expression-driven animation, rigid-body and particle simulation. CAP3220: Computer-Aided Modeling, Aug 2019 - Dec 2019 - Introduces topics related to computer-aided modeling. Polygonal mesh, NURBS and subdivision surface meshes. Materials and shading networks. Lighting, shadows and rendering. CAP3032: Interactive Modeling and Animation, Jan 2019 - May 2019 - Introduces programming and data structures for interactive 2D multimedia applications. Representing graphical interfaces, image processing, automata and basic artificial intelligence. ### Technical Art Intern @ Industrial Light & Magic Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Technical Direction: lighting and rendering final-quality scenes through Unreal Engine 4, as well as collaborated with artists, engineers, and level designers to improve workflows and pipelines. Supported the VFX team by creating various visual effects for the Darkghast enemy and assisted in optimization techniques for improving experience performance. Credited in the lighting department after successful shipment of Vader Immortal, Episode II. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11150592/ ### Technical Art Intern @ Immersed Games Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Gainesville, Florida Area 3D Modeler and Technical Artist intern for the game Tyto Online at Immersed Games. Tyto Online is built to engage students in STEM subjects and enable deep learning with gameplay. The game includes learning modules such as growth and genetics, geology, and more, to aid both teachers and their students in learning the material. ### Inspire Women Who Tech Pre-Internship @ Bank of America Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Charlotte, North Carolina Area Bank of America's Inspire- Women Who Tech program selects female college students studying computer science and engineering to attend a conference at the office in Charlotte, North Carolina. The program focuses on introducing students to the BoA industry (from a women's perspective), as well as helping prepare for the upcoming recruiting season in the fall. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, Digital Arts and Sciences UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering ### International Baccalaureate King High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/julia-aiello - Portfolio: https://juliaaiello.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/juliaaiello JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/juliaaiello/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29