Senior Software Engineer at Apple working on product experiences across Watch Fitness and Apple Fitness+.
Former VP of Engineering at Heal, founder and head of engineering at Modernistik, and product and engineering lead across multiple startups and product teams.
20+ years of software engineering experience, 10 patents, 4 publications, and multiple Fortune 500 awards.
Known for influential hands-on leadership, strong product judgment, and the ability to connect ambitious ideas with dependable execution.
Anthony Persaud builds software that turns complex ideas into products people use every day. With more than 20 years of experience across healthcare, consumer, media, and enterprise domains, he has led initiatives from early discovery and architecture through launch, scale, and long-term platform evolution.
Career highlights include senior engineering work at Apple across Watch Fitness and Fitness+ experiences, VP-level engineering leadership at Heal, patented work from Qualcomm, and founder-led product delivery through Modernistik and Addicted2Salsa.
His work spans mobile apps, web platforms, consumer products, applied AI workflows, and internal systems, with a consistent blend of hands-on implementation, hiring, mentoring, roadmap planning, and cross-functional execution with design, product, and business stakeholders.
Recognized with multiple awards from Fortune 500 organizations, including two GEM Fellowships in Computer Engineering. Product work has also been featured by the Apple App Store, The New York Times, Business Insider, and other major outlets.
Named inventor on 10 patents across media delivery, user interface systems, gesture recognition, and wearable technologies, reflecting sustained innovation from R&D through product implementation.
Published graduate research in digital watermarking, network security, and digital forensics, with work appearing in peer-reviewed journals and technical publications.
Deep experience in mobile and full-stack product engineering across Apple platforms, healthcare systems, cloud-backed applications, and early-stage product delivery. Proven track record leading teams while staying close to architecture, implementation, and product quality.
Technical focus areas include product architecture, API and data design, release engineering, observability, privacy-aware systems, and code quality practices that support long-term maintainability. Leadership focus areas include building high-trust teams, setting clear delivery processes, and turning product requirements into reliable technical roadmaps.
Recent work also includes practical AI-assisted product and engineering workflows, with an emphasis on using modern reasoning and coding tools to improve planning, implementation quality, and delivery speed without losing engineering rigor.
Leadership experience across startups and enterprise environments, including engineering management, product ownership, and hands-on technical execution. The roles below reflect a long arc of building products, leading teams, and shaping technical direction across different stages of company growth.
Building product experiences across Watch Fitness and Apple Fitness+, with work spanning watchOS, iOS, and tvOS.
Led engineering across mobile, backend, and web platforms, including telemedicine, clinical workflows, and remote patient monitoring during a period of national scale-up and acquisition by Humana.
Built and led product engineering for clients and internal ventures across mobile and web, combining software delivery, design direction, and product strategy.
Owned product and engineering from concept through launch, helping grow the platform into meaningful recurring revenue and an eventual acquisition outcome.
Developed consumer and internal software across mobile, web, and backend systems, contributing patented work in media delivery, interaction design, gesture recognition, and motion technologies.
Created a globally recognized digital media and entertainment brand spanning mobile products, web platforms, and long-form content.
Conducted graduate research in multimedia forensics and digital watermarking, contributing to multiple publications and book chapters.
Built web-based network scanning and monitoring tools in support of infrastructure security and operational reliability, helping improve visibility and reduce risk across production environments.
Developed software tools to automate testing workflows and improve deployment efficiency for IBM server products. Also built web applications that provided real-time infrastructure visibility and reduced administrative overhead.
Anthony's patents reflect long-term work in applied R&D across media delivery, user interface design, wearable technology, and gesture recognition, with emphasis on practical systems that move from research into production-ready experiences.
Graduate research focused on digital forensics, multimedia watermarking, network security, and cryptography, with publications through IEEE and IFIP channels. This research foundation continues to inform an engineering approach centered on reliability, security, and measurable performance.
Anthony received scholarships and awards from Motorola, Cargill, General Motors, IBM, and Qualcomm. He was awarded a GEM Fellowship for graduate engineering studies at Iowa State University and a Ph.D. Engineering GEM Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University.
Anthony is a one-of-a-kind engineer, leader, and mentor that left an invaluable impact on our software engineering team. His technical expertise for designing, building, deploying, and scaling software applications is extensive and deeply rooted in academic & professional experience. It was an absolute pleasure to work with Anthony as he is a master of his craft and a highly motivating & engaging leader.
Anthony has a long-established track record of delivering robust, scalable, and extensible product features on mobile and full-stack server architectures, and takes immense pride in always delivering on time. He has an incredible internal drive to constantly improve and works immensely hard to elevate those around him to deliver the best work of their careers. Any team should consider themselves fortunate to have Anthony on board and I give him my highest recommendation.
Anthony is a brilliant developer and an effective team leader. Building software that performs at scale is an endless puzzle, but due diligence and creativity are evident in his solutions. As head engineer at GigTown, Anthony set examples for his staff both through coding practices and willingness to teach one-on-one. He is happy to delegate responsibility when appropriate, and the culture he fosters ensures each engineer under his direction is capable of contributing to any facet of a project. His dedication to quality rubs off on those around him, and I can confidently say that Anthony's influence has been the largest catalyst for growth in my career thus far.
Anthony is a data-driven, enthusiastic, and competitive Technology Leader. He is a transformative leader who uniquely shapes & fosters cohesion with product, technology, sales, and operations - a rare skillset and quality that is hard to come by. What impresses me the most about Anthony is his constant ability to ship high-quality, above-expectation products and services with deadlines. He makes an art to always exceed expectations, always accounting for the variability and unknown factors that could impact a project or release. I've been hard pressed to find a leader as knowledgeable and adept as he in mobile development, enterprise software architecture, dev-ops management, product design, and operations integrations/automation - if full-stack could get fuller - that would be Anthony.
Anthony is very motivated full-stack software developer and designer who drives the project to nothing else but success. I have had a pleasure to work with him on multiple projects back at Qualcomm MediaFLO and recently at GigTown where I worked with him on different mobile and web applications (front-end and back-end). His zeal to learn and adapt new technologies is commendable.
I had the pleasure of working for Anthony and his team at Modernistik on several projects. His talent and hard work is really inspiring to be around. He is very innovative and capable of taking on and delivering on any project. He knows how to approach every task the smart way and keep the team focused and motivated on the task at hand. I would highly recommend Anthony and the team at Modernisitk for any project. Truly an amazing software development team!
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