* Villa is a popular virtual world creation and collaboration platform in VR, increasingly driven by #GenAI* Over 500,000 active users* Users have the power to create and shape multiplayer interactions in virtual worlds that are multiples more productive than IRL or videoconferencing combined - with immersion, presence, superpowers, thrilling locations, and perks like never before* Optimized to also work well in compute constrained stand alone VR devices like Meta Quest, bringing photorealism to life in VR* Leveraging AI and GenAI, a minute in a VR meeting is 10x more powerful than IRL meetings or Zoom* Using Villa requires zero code or design skills: In a few minutes spawn your metaverse or scan and upload your office. Conduct social or business meetings. Imagination is your single limitation.* 3D Mapping enables business travel worldwide Virtual Reality for indoor spaces* Experiences that leverage photogrammetry, LiDAR, volumetric video, text to speech, text to 3D and a ton of GPT* Automation and optimization in VR of scans, 3D meshes, and display in virtual reality* Grew base to over half a million active users in VR* Increased revenues by hundreds of % mo/mo* Optimized to work well in compute constrained stand alone devices, bringing photorealism to life in VR* Leveraging AI and GenAI, a minute in a VR meeting is 10x more powerful than IRL meetings or Zoom* Zero code or design skills required: In a few seconds spawn your metaverse or scan and upload your office. Conduct social or business meetings. Imagination is your single limitation.* 3D Mapping enables business travel worldwide Virtual Reality for indoor spaces* Specializing in indoor scans for virtual reality using photogrammetry and LiDAR* Automation and optimization, scans, 3D meshes, and display in virtual reality

Full stack engineer building custom mobile and web applications, from project inception and development to agile coaching and mentoring.Example projects:- Rails and Stimulus development for Kompliant, a commerce platform that streamlines application processing, verification, decisioning, and monitoring- Rails development for Pivot Bio, an agricultural tech company- Rails development for One Medical, a membership-based primary care practice- Rails and React development for Vineti (now Johnson & Johnson), a platform that expands patient access to life-saving cells and gene therapies- Rails and React development for the WHO on benchmarks.org, to facilitate the planning and implementation of health security preparedness - Rails and React development on a residential sales and proposal tool for SunPower, a solar cell and solar panel manufacturer- iOS app and Node development for Shyp, a startup providing courier and shipping services- iOS app development for Lully and Nomiku, both of which are ycombinator W15 startups- iOS app development for SnapPost, a startup which streamlines posting to eBay

Lead iOS developer, set architectural direction, rapid prototyping, task/todo/calendar, and email. Mentored developers new to iOS brought over from front-end web team, grew team to 7 iOS developers.Identified scalability and latency issues in v1.0 REST backend, moved to direct IMAP email support using MailCore2, hired and coordinated with authors of MailCore2.Created a persisted command queue for network resilience and application level undo using command pattern, brought in Kiwi for BDD testing, and Bolts to help manage a variety of async tasks and queues.Lead front-end developer on desktop level single page web application, with support for email threading, linked todo/tasks, keyboard driven and drag and drop interface.Chose architecture and frameworks for web application, including Knockout.js and Backbone.js, Mentored front-end developers on best practices for Test Driven Development using Jasmine and Capybara.

Founded company, hired key engineers including a Rails core committer, launched two apps in App Store.Accepted into Start-Up Chile, a seed accelerator and investor in Santiago, ChileCreated VideoVivo, an iOS app and web app marketplace to get professional help over live video and text chat.Backend in Ruby on Rails, Balanced Payments for payments and escrow, Amazon S3 for video storageInvestigated and prototyped video chat solutions, including Vidyo and WebRTC solutions from TokBox and AddLive, and our own solution with Google WebRTC source and the rfc5766-turn-server.Created Peer, an app for meeting professionals to network, learn new skills, and expand your professional world instantly over live video.

Contributor to Jasmine (http://github.com/pivotal/jasmine), an open source BDD testing framework for JavaScript.Contributor to Cedar (http://github.com/pivotal/cedar), a BDD testing framework for Objective-C.Contributor to PivotalCoreKit ((http://github.com/pivotal/PivotalCoreKit)), a common code library.Initiated iOS development at Pivotal when the iPad launched (iOS 4.x), worked on first 3 native iOS projects, established test patterns and techniques.Developed iPad app for MagCloud for HP, a self-publishing platform for creating and selling magazine content, including interfacing to a backend printing platform.Developed iPad app for http://www.inquireproject.com for SRI, an intelligent textbook which understands and intelligently answers student questions against the content of the Campbell Biology textbook using a backend knowledge representation and reasoning system.Developed several key webOS applications for Palm Pre and HP Touchpad, including Facebook, Twitter, Bing Maps, AP News, CitySearch, and Gowalla, worked with early pre-release hardware and with alpha and later versions of the Mojo and Enyo webOS JavaScript frameworks.

Implemented new features, setup Continuous Integration and Selenium testing, performance testing, caching, and globalization, in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, prototype.js, jQuery.

First exposure to TDD (Test Driven Development). Developed Pivotal Tracker, a web 2.0 application to track agile development projects, in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, prototype.js, YUI, Selenium, JSUnit, RUnit.

Defined and implemented solutions to integrate with technology and OEM partners, including:• IBM Tivoli• IBM Netcool• EMC Smarts• Computer Associates NSM• Proofpoint email appliance

Architect and developer on ActiveReach Hawkeye, an interdiction service to block P2P (Peer-to-Peer) users from searching and downloading protected content online. Code and unit tests for state machines and TCP/UDP protocol, to emulate and interdict clients on various P2P networks, including EDonkey2000 and Overnet, in Java, JUnit, Linux, SwiftMQ.

Architect and technical lead for five engineers on Analyzer 3.0, a business intelligence single page web application. Functionality including cached query results, filters, drilldown, aggregate functions, and simultaneous query execution, in Perl, DomAPI, JavaScript, JSON, Apache, Linux.Senior consulting engineer, delivered enterprise solutions for company's first 10 key customers, including Bank One, Yahoo!, Cisco, Macromedia, Nielsen/Netratings, Wired.com, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Goldman Sachs, and Lehman Brothers.

Architect and technical lead for development of call tracking system, in Java/J2EE, iPlanet, LDAP, Solaris

Developed from the ground up three startups in 18 months:- ShopMarket.com- MakeAnOffer.com- MyBiz.comRecruited, hired designer and five developers.Architect and developer for queue based scheduler daemon, rules-based inbound email processor, clustering and load balancing, and scraper of eBay, in Perl, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux.

Architect and developer of web applications for:- Channel Partners Marketing, in ColdFusion, HTML, SQL Server- Marketing Communication (Marcom), in Perl, HTML, Informix- Worldwide Marketing customer wins and references, in Perl, HTML, Informix

Bugzilla, in HTML, JavaScript, TCL.Web applications for Netscape Enterprise Server to manage application instances and SQL server connections, in server-side JavaScript.

Testing of Rational Rose, including Booch/UML diagrams and C++ code generation, on Windows, Solaris, AIX.

Created system that organized and tracked over 120,000 test cases and bug regression tests.Build Integration Engineer for dBASE for Windows.B-tree index testing on dBASE and Paradox file formats, in C/C++ for Windows and DOS.