carlosmbendera

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The catalog.

Setto

Feb 2026

WebsiteAppleApp Store

Featured by Apple

  • Best New Apps · Hot This Week
  • Top 200 Music in the US, Canada, UK and more

Basically tinder for music recs.

A swipe based personal DJ for Apple Music. Featured by Apple in the US and Canada.

Rhythm Snap

Apr 2023

GitHubGitHub

Apple, WWDC23

Swift Student Challenge Winner

Rhythm Snap running on iPad

An iPad rhythm game controlled by hand gestures.

Built it because I kept snapping my fingers to music. Won Apple's WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge. 1 of 350 winners worldwide.

The track record.

Work

Since Sept 2026
Apple
Software Engineer, Siri AI.
Summer 2025
Apple
Vision Products Group. Real-Time Software Engineering.
Summer 2024
Apple
Vision Products Group. Technology Investigation.
2023 to 2026
University of Kansas
Undergraduate Research. Mobile App and AI Developer.
2023 to 2024
Specify Collections Consortium
Quality Assurance and Software Developer.

Education

2023 to 2026
University of Kansas
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
2025 to 2026
Korea University
Generative AI, LLMs, and Machine Learning.
2024 to 2025
University of Leeds
Exchange semester. United Kingdom.
2021 to 2022
South China University of Technology
International Foundation Year, Computer Science.

The good stuff.

Event
Y Combinator Startup School
Chase Center, San Francisco.
2026
Talk
Deep Dish Swift
Extra Saucy Swift Audio APIs. Chicago.
2026
Talk
Hello Swift Students, Apple Japan
Tokyo.
2026
Hackathon
TreeHacks at Stanford
Vera, on-device AI wellness. Palo Alto.
2026
Talk
Community for Swift Students Korea
Seoul.
2025
Award
Swift Student Challenge Winner
Rhythm Snap. 1 of 350 students worldwide.
2023
Competition
IMC Prosperity Trading Challenge
Top 1.6 percent. 221 of 13,614 worldwide.
2023

About.

Carlos Mbendera in a red jacket on a beach in Japan

Tokyo, January 2026.

Tonal architect, occasional radio host and software engineer.

I enjoy making really rad sets for the radio and getting computers to do cool things. Usually with music, audio, LLMs, Swift, or machine learning. Currently building really cool things on Apple’s Siri AI team.

Send me an email

On rotation

Radio

Grand Line Radio
BFF.fm, San Francisco
June 2024 to Sept 2025
The Embassy
Leeds Student Radio, Leeds
Oct 2024 to Dec 2024
Jazz in The MorningGrand Line Radio
KJHK 90.7 FM, Lawrence
August 2023 to May 2024