Gregory Fuller Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Working on VR Headset System-Integrated software for managing and visualizing spatial-related behavior, including the "Guardian" application and its integrated features such as (not exhaustively) "Playspace Scan", "Intrusion Detection", "Assisted Scene Capture", and "Smart Boundary", which are collectively responsible for providing information about the real world to the VR headset and its apps, and which are used to provide more immersive and safer VR experiences with deeper awareness of an integration with the user's physical environment.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Worked as a "Product Generalist" in the "Reality Labs" (FKA "Oculus") division of Meta (FKA "Facebook"), developing software that runs on its standalone/wireless Virtual Reality (VR) headsets, such as the "Meta Quest 2" (FKA "Oculus Quest 2") headset.Primarily worked on software to support the ability for people to view and control their personal desktop and laptop computers from inside their VR headsets. This included the "Remote Desktop" functionality of Meta's Horizon Workrooms Unity app, the standalone "Remote Display" VR Panel app (with an Android frontend and C++ via JNI backend), and the Electron-based Mac/Win Desktop "Companion App", as well as some backend network logic for Pairing and Discovery implemented in GraphAPI and MQTT.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Software Engineer in AR/VR org working on "Spark AR", as a member of the AR Engine and Camera SDK Core Health teams.Responsibilities include:* Contribute to defining and own high-visibility performance metrics representative of the team's stack's health.* Identify and resolve performance, scalability and reliability issues.* Optimize CPU, memory, disk, and battery usage.* Architect systems to extend the AR platform.Camera SDK is the team responsible for developing and maintaining the cross-platform and platform-specific camera-related features for Facebook's family of apps and devices, including Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and Portal.The "AR Studio" application is Facebook's AR effect authoring platform, used internally and available publicly, to allow anybody to author AR effects for use on Facebook's camera platform. The program generates content for the "Spark AR" Platform.SparkAR is the system backing Facebook's Augmented Reality effects platform. The system acts as a provider of reality tracking data (expression, face, body, environment position, etc) to said AR effects. This enables a wide range of functionality, such as face morphs (Moving or manipulating facial features), and 2d and 3d overlays with optional occlusion (allowing, for example, an effect to render various 3D objects as head-wear, background or foreground flavor, or as human input for games, simulations, or to drive traditional 2d filters)

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Member of the "Core Engineering" group, as part of a team of, on average, 4 engineers (occasionally, 3 or 5), which had slowly consolidated over the prior 5 years from a set of teams of 26 engineers. This work encompassed all core game-level logic, internal system management and low-to-mid-level features (eg. 3d-ui, UI and gameplay interop, rendering and data management, procedural content generation and low level "user tools", such as those related to supporting player creation of in-game houses and families).Excerpts from my 2018 performance review:"His contributions are not limited to what he delivers on a technical level but how he partners with his co-workers. The feedback makes it clear that he informs his partners of what he working on, asking questions to get clarification of requirements all while keeping an open mind and listening to other's views.""He worked on features smaller in scope like [those] more focused on the web portion of the game client to visual implementations on the renderer side, all the way to a large build buy feature which will be enjoyed by our millions of players.""Feedback from his engineer partners is that he is attentive in meetings and will call out edge case scenarios to help avoid iteration time and future bugs. Overall Greg partners very well with all disciplines from his own, to QA and this is reinforced through his received feedback.""Greg's programming expertise is certainly a major strength of his which is also recognized by his peers. He is efficient in writing high quality code and in a range of Client System areas such as Build, CAS, and Audio. Even before the first line of code is written, he is engaged and brings up valid concerns in design meetings showing excellent foresight which helps catch design issues. This is not limited to only new features but is able to recall challenges in the past which were similar, in order to avoid repeating history."

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Member of the consolidated "Client Systems" team, which was responsible for building and maintaining all of the systems-level code on The Sims 4 project. Ownership covered the in-game Create-A-Sim tool (custom human sculpting and wardrobe management), the Build/Buy system (housing / architecture building), and all engine-level logic (including pathplanning, audio, data management, rendering systems, UI interop and gameplay interop). In 2015, I became part of EA's "Software Engineering Guild", a hand-picked group of 40 of the most promising software developers from all of EA's studios, formed to provide "disruptive guidance" to EA upper management (including the sitting CEO and CTO), with the intention of "helping to shape the future of EA".Until the rating system's removal in 2016, I was consistently rated "Significantly Above Target" for each of my yearly performance reviews (Employee manuals claimed this is a "rating reserved for only the top performers at EA, less than 10% of employees receiving this rating")

Redwood City, Ca, Us

I was a member of the "Build/Buy"​ team, which was responsible for the in-game Home-Building logic (Also known as "Build Mode"​). Features include architecture creation and manipulation (eg: placement of walls, floors, ceilings, stairs, decks, fences, friezes, trims) and home object placement (chairs, lamps, pool ladders).The Build/Buy was team was responsible for planning and delivering its own targeted features, while supporting other specialized "scrum" groups (such as the "Motech" team, responsible for in-game routing logic, the "CAS / Create A Sim" team, responsible for character creation logic, and the "Client Systems" team, responsible for lower level systems and rendering logic).Work included: * Implementing and maintaining critical systems code in C++ and shaders in HLSL * Delivering technologies and APIs to fellow teams and supporting those teams * Creating In-Game user-friendly tools that expose game functionality (3D-UI) * Writing technical design and software design documentation * Maintaining and extending tools in C# for building assets used by the runtime system

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Continued work as a Software Quality Engineer ("SQE") for The Sims Studio, with expanded responsibilities as a lead of a team of two other junior software engineers

Redwood City, Ca, Us

I was hired as the sole Software Quality Engineer ("SQE") for The Sims Studio. In my role as an SQE, I developed a system of automated testing tools and practices that was considered the "Gold Standard" for automation practices within the QE department across World-Wide EA.Work I did in this position included:* Game client automation-integration code in C++ and python* Creation of a test machine and resource (eg. databases, for server load tests) management system in MsSQL, with C# and python interfaces* Creation of a build and test deployment framework in python* Creation of an automated test management and queue utility in python, including real-time test and machine monitoring and automatic quarantine of bad tests or bad physical resources* Creation of an automated testing framework (and many automated test script)s in C#, with associated GUI using WinForms (which paved the way for introducing our developers to the concepts of using automated tests as a useful resource for their own benefits)* Production-scale performance testing applications (including load driving utilities and scripts) in C# and python* End-to-End performance log management solution (including a custom DB schema and web reporting solution)* email-based reporting solution in python, web-based reporting solutions in Asp.Net, Php, and SSRS (reporting from MsSQL databases via T-SQL)

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Worked with 4 other CS undergrads to create a Eufloria-like PlayStation 3 "RTS" game.

Volunteer General Systems Programmer and Bug Fixer for the free MUD Primal Darkness. Continuing intermittent work with MUD staff through 2009. Remade an existing room doors system for easier door creation, more usability. Created a WoW-inspired room instancing system.

Computer Science: Game Design (Bs.), Computer Science

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