Meta Mixed Reality Program (VR DRI)DRI for the product teams (30+ engineers) that develop system-level capabilities and user-facing settings & experiences for mixed reality and scene capture (object tagging). VR System ServicesManaging a portfolio of teams (40+ engineers) that provide system-level services, APIs and infrastructure for 1P/3P developers. Built the organizational structure, a strong bench of managers and senior ICs, and set up a high-performance, impact-focused culture. Strong focus on durable architectures for fast iteration and sound engineering practices. Consistently above org average team health measured by individual empowerment, career growth and work/life balance.

Oculus for Business - Started the engineering effort for this 0→1 product. This was a cross-org, cross-company collaboration to bring VR devices into business environments. The product was focused on shared-device end-user training use cases for enterprise customers. I created the high-level architecture, hired, built and led the team and cross-functional teams to a) build a device-based backend graph (different but connected to the Facebook user-based social graph), b) an identity-less device mode in the VR operating system, c) a device fleet management portal integrated with Facebook’s Workplace product (similar to an MDM-lite portal). Worked across sales, marketing, customer support, developer support and operations management to deliver an end-to-end program. Launched the product in March 2020, and went through a few iterations based on customer and market data. With the change in market behavior focusing on remote work and collaboration, help drive a decision to revamp the model to a per-user productivity device. Federated (reorged) the team and the effort across all product teams within VR vs. a single vertical team. Used the learnings from the market to drive the vision for the next offering: Quest for Business.Quest for Business: Co-created a vision for bringing VR devices to businesses, with a focus on collaboration and prosumer use cases. Aligned the vision across pillar leads in different orgs, drafted a strategy and incremental roadmap based on the vision. Hired a spearhead team accountable for device management, and defined/managed work streams across multiple teams to begin executing on the strategy. Released three stages of closed beta trials with customers, reincorporated feedback and iterated on the product, and released an open beta to the public. Hired, set up and coached a leadership team to continue to drive the program forward - eventually graduated and moved the team to the MetaWorks organization to focus on enterprise use cases.

Managed the team responsible for app downloads, entitlements, installations, device-level telemetry, and over-the-air updates.Created the first OS-infrastructure team for improving developer efficiency, automated builds, and AOSP unit test frameworks

Joined at the infancy of building the first mobile VR headset. I ported a patching library to Aarch64, built various benchmarking and replay tools, and was responsible for the NUX (new user experience) for device setup, which was used for Oculus Go, Quest 1, and portions of which continue to be used for the Quest line and Meta’s Portal devices.

Microfluidic Innovations is leading a paradigm shift in assay development at microfluidic scale. Scaling down assays to microfluidic scale offers the rare combination of low sample/reagent use, faster analysis, and higher sensitivity/specificity. However, assay development at microfluidic scale involves long and expensive chip design, fabrication and test cycles, taking months to years and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.Microfluidic Innovations is leading a paradigm shift by moving assay development from chip design and fabrication to simply “programming” an assay in software to run on a highly-integrated, multi-purpose, programmable lab on a chip (PLoC) device. The Company’s core technology empowers life-scientists with maximum flexibility to develop assays using a powerful software and automation system. The AssayMark™ System is designed with the life scientist in mind to dramatically reduce the assay development process from months to mere days, thereby realizing a significant reduction in costs.The AssayMark™ System has been used for diverse assays, such as enzyme kinetics research, glucose level detection, particle sorting and bacteria culturing and synchronization, and cancer drug efficacy assays.

As part of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Automata Processor (AP) team, I am working on the development of a new generation of advanced programmable semiconductor architectures. The Automata Processor is the first dedicated hardware coprocessor aimed at executing complex automata algorithms. The SDK is a complex code base which relies on disciplines such as ASIC/FPGA placement and route theory, graph algorithms, parsing, compiler theory, heuristics and automata theory. Part of my work and main responsibilities involve:• Development and maintenance of a full system AP simulator. The simulator has enabled the verification of many hardware and driver components, and has uncovered many potential failures in the hardware and driver. The simulator tool chain is currently used by several teams working on the AP project.• Development of new APIs for the SDK• Development of client side update service for automatic SDK updates• Development and maintenance of the full SDK stack, ranging from the compiler input parser, core compiler algorithms, and kernel level driver code• Active participation in requirement analysis and design of the next generation AP

Research on programmable microfluidics, ranging from architecture, high-level language support, compiler optimizations and automation.

Architectural simulation of memory interconnect, bandwidth and RTL verification of NVIDIA's low-power GPUs

Reducing DRAM power through modifications to the last-level cache replacement policies