12 Facts About Andy Hertzfeld

Andrew Jay Hertzfeld was born on April 6,1953 and is an American software engineer who was a member of Apple Computer's original Macintosh development team during the 1980s.

Since leaving Apple, Andy Hertzfeld has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990, and Eazel in 1999.

Andy Hertzfeld worked at Google from 2005 to 2013, where in 2011, he was the key designer of the Circles user interface in Google+.

Andy Hertzfeld was hired by Apple Computer as a systems programmer in 1979 and developed the Apple Silentype printer firmware and wrote the firmware for the Sup'R'Terminal, the first 80-column card for the Apple II.

Andy Hertzfeld wrote large portions of the Macintosh's original system software, including much of the ROM code, the User Interface Toolbox, and a number of innovative components now standard in many graphic user interfaces, like the Control Panel and Scrapbook.

Andy Hertzfeld volunteered for the Open Source Applications Foundation in 2002 and 2003, writing early prototypes of Chandler, their information manager.

In 1996, Hertzfeld was interviewed by Robert X Cringely on the television documentary Triumph of the Nerds, and was again interviewed by Cringely on NerdTV in 2005.

Andy Hertzfeld was the key designer of the Google+ Circles interface.

Andy Hertzfeld worked on Picasa, and Gmail's profile image selector.

Andy Hertzfeld was portrayed by Elden Henson in the 2013 film Jobs.

Andy Hertzfeld was later played by actor Michael Stuhlbarg in the 2015 film Steve Jobs.

Andy Hertzfeld stated "almost nothing in it is how it really happened" about the Steve Jobs film, and that the film ultimately was not aiming for realism.