Makan Arastuie

Hey, I'm Makan (think Porsche Macan, if that helps). I'm an ML engineer at Apple working on multimodal AI.

Prior to that, I spent ~3 years as a founding ML engineer at Brightwave, building production agentic systems end to end. And before Brightwave, I spent ~4 years doing applied ML research at Seagate across hard drive design and manufacturing. My graduate research was on the intersection of machine learning and complex networks, advised by Dr. Kevin S. Xu.

I enjoy skiing, mountain biking, and most recently riding my motorcycle in the canyons. I also play pickup soccer when I'm not injured :)

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Timeline

2026 –

Apple · Machine Learning Engineer
Part of Apple’s Multimodal Intelligence team.

2023 – 2026

Brightwave · Founding Machine Learning Engineer
I joined the two founders as the first hire, taking the idea into production and building many of its core systems. The platform grew into a workspace where teams collaborate on shared projects and run long-horizon agentic workflows.

2020 – 2023

Seagate · MLE Intern → MLE II → Senior MLE
I started on the internal ML team working on hard drive test reliability and efficiency in manufacturing, and storage-domain NLP, and later joined the Seagate Research Group to work on ML-accelerated design of recording media.

2016 – 2020

IDEAS Lab, University of Toledo · Research Assistant
I studied generative models of link formation in dynamic networks, and was a founding contributor of DyNetworkX.

2013 – 2020

University of Toledo · B.S. & M.S.E., Computer Science & Engineering