Darren Haas (born 1974) is an American

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and executive at

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, where he heads the Engineering group at GE Digital. He is a co-founder of

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and was a principal engineer at

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, acquired by

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Education

Haas received as B.S. in

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from

California State University, Chico California State University, Chico (Chico State) is a public university in Chico, California. It was founded in 1887 as one of about 180 "normal schools" founded by state governments in the 19th century to train teachers for the rapidly growing ...

Career in software engineering

Before joining

, Haas led a team that developed the cloud platform at

. Haas came to Apple by way of its acquisition of

, where he built early prototypes of the NLP engine and was co-founder of the Siri architectural platform. There he wrote the first prototype of Siri. During his tenure at Apple he co-founded

Popular Children's Application

In 2010, Haas wrote and released an

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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)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Haas, Darren Living people Open source advocates California State University, Chico alumni 1974 births