Ricardo Batista

Ricardo Batista is a former senior software engineer and manager at Apple Computer who is best known for creating Extensions Manager.

Education
Batista graduated from the of,  in 1983. He studied computer science at, where he first encountered a Macintosh when it shipped in 1984 and began programming on it in 1986.

Apple Computer
Batista joined Apple Computer in January 1989. He wrote various patches and utilities for classic Mac OS, such as DragWindow INIT, which eventually would become standard features of future versions, including Mac OS X. In 1991, he wrote Extensions Manager as a freeware utility to manage extensions and control panels in System 7. By September 1994, it had become an official feature of System 7.5. According to Batista, his most challenging assignment was working on the ROM for the Macintosh Quadra 840AV and the first Power Macintosh computers.

After Apple
In December 1993, Batista joined Magic Edge to help develop a networked full-motion flight simulator based on an and Macintosh that was deployed at 's  theme park in Japan. In December 1994, he joined to develop demonstration software for the marketing of the  and  workstations. In October 1997, Batista joined Netscape, where he developed the mail and news client of Netscape Communicator 4.5 and 5.0 before it evolved into the open source project (now known as Firefox). He has since become an independent software architect for the iPhone and iPad.