# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/avie-tevanian
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:30:48.854Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/avie-tevanian"
name: "Avie Tevanian"
slug: "avie-tevanian"
description: "Avadis \"Avie\" Tevanian, Jr. is an American software engineer and former senior vice president of software engineering at Apple from 1997 to 2003, before serving as chief software technology officer from 2003 to 2006. 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. At Carnegie Mellon University, he was a principal designer and engineer of the Mach operating system. He used that work at NeXT Inc. as the foundation of the NeXTSTEP operating system."
tagline: "American software engineer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1961"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.85
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.42646533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 196
sources:
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    title: "阿瓦迪斯·泰瓦尼安"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Avie Tevanian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avie_Tevanian"
    title: "Avie Tevanian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آوی توانیان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Avadis Tevanian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%BE%D5%A5%D5%BF%D5%AB%D5%BD_%D4%B9%D6%87%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6"
    title: "Ավետիս Թևանյան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avie_Tevanian"
    title: "Avie Tevanian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%83%90%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3"
    title: "アビー・テバニアン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "에이비 티베이니언"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Avadis Tevanian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avie_Tevanian"
    title: "Avie Tevanian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BD%2C_%D0%90%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Теванян, Аветис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avadis_Tevanian"
    title: "Avadis Tevanian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump