Andres is a Senior Software Engineer at Apple, where he leads the WebKit Accessibility project. His career is dedicated to assistive technology, having been one of the original engineers for the JAWS screen reader and having led PDF accessibility efforts at Adobe for 15 years. He holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Havana.
Blind since the age of seven from glaucoma, Andres grew up in Cuba where assistive technology was scarce. His family and friends supported his education by reading and recording his textbooks onto cassette tapes, which fueled his passion for science and mathematics and led to his impactful career in accessible technology.
Unique fact: His early career was in computational neuroscience, co-authoring papers on the mathematical modeling of brain electromagnetic activity.
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