Darren Haas

Darren Haas (born 1974) is an American software engineer and executive^[1] at General Electric, where he heads the Engineering group at GE Digital.^[2] He is a co-founder of Change.org and was a principal engineer at Siri, acquired by Apple.^[3]

Darren Haas
Born	1974 (age 49–50) Torrence, California
Nationality	American
Alma mater	California State University, Chico, B.S.
Known for	Change.org, Siri
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Technology
Institutions	General Electric

Education

Haas received as B.S. in Software Engineering from California State University, Chico.

Career in software engineering

Before joining General Electric, Haas led a team that developed the cloud platform at Apple.^[4] Haas came to Apple by way of its acquisition of Siri, where he built early prototypes of the NLP engine and was co-founder of the Siri architectural platform.^[5][6] There he wrote the first prototype of Siri. During his tenure at Apple he co-founded Change.org.

Popular Children's Application

In 2010, Haas wrote and released an IPhone application based on the popular book Flat Stanley. By 2019, the application had over 1 million downloads.

Personal life

Haas is married and has four children.

Awards and honors

• Outlier Award (2018)^[7]

References

1. Executive Profile | GE Company (General Electric Co.)^{[permanent dead link]}
2. G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up
3. Early Siri Engineer Departs Apple for GE
4. Apple lost another Siri co-creator to an unexpected rival
5. Siri Co-Founder Moves Away From Apple, Joins General Electric
6. . Archived from the original on 2018-06-02. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
7. . Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2019-02-01.

External links

• Darren Haas on LinkedIn