I’m Khalid — a software developer, illustrator, and toolmaker based in NYC.

I started building for the web in the late ’90s, drawing and animating in Macromedia Flash, and never really stopped making things. Over two decades, I’ve worked across agencies, startups, and Apple — shipping mobile apps, backend services, developer tools, and the occasional drawing.

The short version

1998–2010 — Flash developer at agencies across NYC. Built interactive sites, games, and rich media experiences. Also did a lot of video production — shooting, editing, motion graphics — but code kept pulling me in because I could do what video did, but in real time.

2011 — Made the jump from Flash to iOS when the writing was on the wall. Shipped my first app as an iOS developer at Callaway Digital Arts, leading development on Martha Stewart CraftStudio.

2012–2019 — Spent the next stretch as a contract iOS developer and startup CTO. Co-founded a couple of companies (Surv, Claim It!), building mobile apps end-to-end — clients, APIs, cloud infrastructure on AWS. Working in a co-working space in NYC put me in direct contact with the grind of early-stage product work. Attended my first WWDC in 2012.

2019–2023 — Joined Apple as a software engineer in Operations. Built Yields, an internal iOS/macOS app used by manufacturing teams worldwide to track production metrics. Sole developer across three major versions — SwiftUI, internal APIs, full DocC documentation. Left in mid-2023.

2023–present — Founded Khaos Studio with the goal of producing original animated stories. The realities of solo animation production quickly led me down the path of building tooling — script analysis, story scaffolding, project automation — which evolved into Khaos Machine, a platform for filmmakers and animators to get script coverage, analysis, and narrative feedback. Still early stages.

Along the way I’ve been building and releasing open-source tools — a code certification system, a book publishing toolkit, and free books on programming without a computer and practical AI usage.

When I’m not coding

Drawing, animating, cooking, woodworking, gardening, making beats, or whatever feels right.