Avie Tevanian

Avadis Tevanian
Born
Avadis Tevanian

1961 (age 62–63)
NationalityAmerican-Armenian
EducationPhD, MS, BA
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
University of Rochester
Employers
Known forComputer scientist and coarchitect of Mach kernel, NeXTSTEP, and macOS

Avadis "Avie" Tevanian (born 1961) is an American-Armenian software engineer. At Carnegie Mellon University, he was a principal designer and engineer of the Mach operating system (also known as the Mach Kernel). He leveraged that work at NeXT Inc. as the foundation of the NeXTSTEP operating system. He was senior vice president of software engineering at Apple from 1997 to 2003, and then chief software technology officer from 2003 to 2006.[1] There, he redesigned NeXTSTEP to become macOS. Apple's macOS and iOS both incorporate the Mach Kernel, and iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS are all derived from iOS. He was a longtime friend of Steve Jobs.[2]

  1. ^ "Avie Tevanian Named Chief Software Technology Officer of Apple". University of Rochester. Archived from the original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  2. ^ "Was Steve Jobs' genius also a fatal flaw?". BBC News. 8 March 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2016.

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