bio

Jonathan Cheyer is an Engineering Manager at Apple Inc. Prior to Siri's acquisition by Apple, he was a Senior Director at Siri.

Before that, Mr. Cheyer was a Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo! in Santa Clara, where he worked on large-scale storage and retrieval of listing data used by Yahoo! verticals such as Shopping, Real Estate, and Autos.

Before moving to Yahoo!, he headed up the Open Source Community Development effort for Solid Information Technology in Cupertino, CA (later acquired by IBM). He was responsible for transforming Solid from using the traditional proprietary model into one that embraced open source.

Prior to that, he was a Senior Software Engineer at Motorola, where he was a member of the MIDP3 Reference Implementation team focused on defining and implementing JSR 271, an early set of Java APIs for mobile devices. He was also a member of the Gatling development team, one of the first public open source projects at Motorola.

Mr. Cheyer has more than a decade of experience designing and implementing scalable, web-based business systems and applications for companies in intranet, extranet, business-to-consumer (B2C), and business-to-business (B2B) environments. Past engagements include Netscape Communications, AOL Time-Warner, Confluent Software, Verticalnet, and planetRx.com. He is also an advisor to CIM Engineering, Inc, a company that focuses on highly effective distributed collaboration.

Mr. Cheyer holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Open source projects that Mr. Cheyer has worked on in the past include State of the Future Index, HyperScope (a Javascript-based implementation of a few features present in Doug Engelbart's early NLS system), and DorsalSource (a community site that hosted MySQL source code and binaries). He was also the Technical Lead of the NLS/Augment Restoration Project at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.