I spent 2025 helping Notion with native macOS functionality.

Some highlights

  • Implemented meeting detection logic for AI Meeting Notes
  • Built native macOS and Windows installers for their suite of apps
  • macOS expert for their Desktop Infra team

I’m currently available for new work. Full-time or consulting.

What is next?

Job titles

Similar to How To Hire Me (in 2024), both IC and Leadership roles are a good fit. I’ve been doing a lot more hands-on development lately. Here are some suitable job titles

  • Staff/Principal iOS/macOS Engineer
  • Engineering Manager
  • Director of Engineering
  • CTO (for startups or smaller companies)

What is new?

Here are more details on what I was up to in 2025. And what I plan to leverage in 2026.

Improving AI Meeting Notes Performance (Speech-to-Text, Whisper, On-Device ASR)

Meeting Note apps are everywhere now. With many use cases still untapped. Want to improve audio capture, transcription quality, or performance? I’ll provide the roadmap. On-device models are ready for real-world use too. Need a privacy-focused solution or want to reduce cloud inference costs? I got you. Native or Electron.

More details here…

Building AI-Powered Native Desktop Apps (macOS, Windows, Electron)

Desktop was the trend of 2025. Gone are the days of developing with an IDE, Slack, and a bunch of browser tabs. More and more companies are incorporating native desktop OS features to their web platforms. Despite my native snobbery, I must admit Electron has driven a big part of that shift. Desktop hardware acceleration and on-device AI create real product differentiation opportunities.

That trend will continue. And there is a large opportunity to use desktop hardware acceleration to drive AI functionality.

Upskilled in web

After 15 years of focusing on Apple platforms, I wanted to broaden my skill set with more web and back-end knowledge. I had led web teams as a Director, but didn’t have a good grasp of the day-to-day life of a web dev.

This year I got the chance! I wrote a bunch of TypeScript and shipped React code used by millions. And worked with a top Web Infra team.

Back to my audio roots

It was fun to get back to my roots with some Core Audio work. And I even wrote some low-level Windows code which was even farther back in my history. In 2025, I wrote more Objective-C and C++ than Swift. This would be a first in 10+ years.

Where do I sign up?

Does any of the above fit what you’re looking for? Hit me up at jaim@sharpfivesoftware.com!