Dr. Sajid Farooq Email & Phone Number

In today's world of doom-scrolling and algorithmic cookie-cutter content, at ILHAM we are creating experiences that go beyond a fast track of dopamine hits. Our first game is an open-world survival craft game that draws from diverse cultural and spiritual influences, especially from Middle Eastern and South Asian roots. We’re building worlds rich with stories and perspectives untapped. Our goal is simple: To offer players an experience that lingers...

Miami, Florida, Us

We are creating an AI-driven cloud-based suite of technologies for content creation, generation, and publishing. In short: We are creating technology for the future of entertainment. I designed the micro-service architecture, as well as the defining the sales model. I lead the overall strategic tech vision and direction, and routinely scour market-data to gain deep insights and unearth hidden patterns and trends so we can attain true product/market fit.I help use my background in Fortune 50 tech companies to foment lasting partnerships. Having seen the company through strategizing tech for one fund-raise, I am constantly involved in making the next inevitable raise happen.

Beaverton, Or, Us

I led the team that (in partnership with NVidia) created the Omniverse platform.Later, I led a group dedicated to growing innovative ideas: From POC, incubation, to scale. Early on, Our team became Apple’s primary partner in the development of the Apple Vision Pro, validating their commercial use-cases via sneaker development remotely in AR and VR. Beyond that, I led the “AI week”, an org-wide initiative meant to introduce and accelerate the adoption of AI at the Technology Innovation Office.

Stockholm, Se

CoSociety is a photo-realistic MetaVerse for work, with its HQ in Sweden, and clients mostly from the fortune 500. As one of the earliest employees, working closely with the CEO, I established the initial engineering team of 3 people and grew it to a crew of 40+ people, with studios spread across 3 countries: Sweden, Pakistan, Tunisia, and forming new ones in Canada and the USA.I oversee all engineering, technical hiring, and partnerships with tech companies to expedite product development. I established partnerships with companies like Epic, Microsoft, just to name a few

Redmond, Washington, Us

I lead the strategy and roadmap of the next version of #HLSL, a shading language that arguably had one of the deepest impacts on the growth of real-time graphics and games.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Working on low-level next-gen graphics problems that will define Mixed Reality in the next 10 years.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I led the Unreal Engine efforts in Mixed Reality across Microsoft: From delving deep into the source code to uncover bugs, and fix performance issues, to directly helping customers and partners identify and ease pain-points. I help extend Unreal Engine on the HoloLens beyond its limits, to areas like Virtual Production and multi-user AR collaboration. I read the source-code of Unreal Engine as a past-time and am a contributor to the Engine.Coming from an academic background, getting our documentation fixed, and making it easy to follow is a passion. I wrote tutorials, step-by-step Quick-starts, and reorganized docs in my spare time.

Created a working prototype of a novel procedural narrative game technology.

Burlington, Vt, Us

As a Professor of Game Programming, I have taught various game related subjects such as :- Advanced Real-time Rendering (taught Vulkan, among other things)- Introduction to Graphics- Game Engine Design and Implementation- Advanced Programming- Modern C++ (14,17 and 20)

Abbottabad, Kpk, Pk

Teaching GraphicsSupervising M.S/PhD StudentsHeading the "Final-Year Projects" CommitteeFounded the "Industry Liaison Committee"

As hands-on game/graphics coder, leading from the front, I was personally involved in the coding of every product of the company. In addition, I provided direction for the company, and forged partnerships.What I was involved in:- Expanding the team and office- The primary point-of-contact with our clients abroad- The occasional guide for graphics-programming related problems- Defining the SOPs for the company- Training members for delegation of key responsibilities of the company

Houston, Texas, Us

I was the ScrumMaster/Teamlead for our 6-man team. My job involved, among other things, leading the programming effort, defining the overall architecture of the product, inventing creative solutions to problems, creating tools/utilities that enhance programmer productivity, and various non-technical tasks such as defining schedules, mentoring junior members.An example of work that I did: I wrote 'Fluid', a complete event-driven drag-and-drop GUI system as a replacement for the immediate-mode GUI in Unity 3.

Before I began Ra'ed Entertainment, I used to run the popular online workshop "An Introduction to Game Development With Unity"Upon request, I have also presented this workshop in-person at Universities like NUST.

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Taught Computer Graphics ar various universities,

Phd, Real-Time Rendering

Executive Mba

Bmis, Computer Science (Graphics)