Pranav Saxena
June 11, 2020 · LinkedIn recommendation — mentor during Apple internship 2019 (TDG team)
“I was involved in hiring and mentoring Shunzhe as part of his summer internship program at Apple for 3 months.
Shunzhe exhibits extra ordinary capabilities of doing things insanely fast. He has an amazing skill to convert
ideas into code really fast corroborated by his high and jovial energy levels. Under my mentorship, he explored
areas in building AR applications, wrote cloud services, understanding ML models to perform real time remote
inferencing. He also won the best project presentation award by the senior management and got an opportunity to
present his work to VP's at Apple. I was grateful to have Shunzhe as part of my team at Apple and wish him good
luck for future endeavors. Any company would be lucky to have a talent like him.”
Caro, Perry A.
Manager review — Apple internship 2019
“Shunzhe, delivering amazing results is where you really exceeded this summer. You challenged us to keep your
work task list full, as you finished complex and difficult work very quickly, much more quickly that I expected
for a sophomore undergrad, and the work you produced was pretty solid. You routinely beat your deadlines, even
when we gave you more and more responsibilities and difficult tasks. You also showed your attention to detail
and focus on doing things ‘the Apple Way’ in everything that you did.”
iOS Apps: 75+ shipped indie apps/games • 50k+ worldwide downloads • SwiftUI • Cloud • CoreML • ARKit • Objective-C • Swift • Python
Backend: Serverless TypeScript, AWS, Azure, • Linux • REST/GraphQL APIs • CI/CD • Performance/Profiling (Instruments) • Swift on server
Practices & Communication:
Public speaking —
Mozilla Firefox Podcast guest; Expo 2025 Osaka presentations • Git • Code review • Testing