Mindfulness - Vision Products Group

•Responsible for improving learning through the Duolingo Language Learning App•Oversee iOS, Android, Web and backend development across multiple teams

•Directly managed 6-15 engineers and scientists across multiple product launches•Maintained highest performing and lowest attrition engineering teams in organization•Managed multiple software incubation project teams simultaneously including AI assisted simulation authoring, Biometric and Affect Detection from HMD sensors, Procedural Scene Generation for Mixed Reality and Synthetic Training Environments, and Embodied Character AI Platform•Architected and managed the team that built an Embodied Character AI Platform with multiple industry partners including a live Universal Studios Attraction•Contributed as adviser and software developer to Seeing AI (an iOS app that uses Azure Cognitive Services to assist vision impaired individuals), Microsoft Maquette (A spatial design program built inside VR), and other confidential incubation programs•Led the software team that delivered Windows Mixed Reality headsets home experience and core manipulation, teleportation and 6-dof controller interactions•Led the development of new ML AI solutions in collaboration with AI research teams across several continents

•Led the architecture and software development of Hololens Shell as an individual contributor from prototype to shipping product•Iterated closely with Head Tracking, Hand Tracking and Scene Reconstruction teams over multiple years to improve the entire stack from OS Shell down to sensors to deliver the algorithms and interactive experience at quality•Designed and developed a soft-body physics system for real-time, photo-realistic characters animated by Kinect sensor tracking•Designed and implemented much of a highly parallel game and simulation engine written in C++11 and contributed to implementation of WYSIWYG C# XAML editor for generating content for simulation engine

•Supported multiple simultaneous titles as member of core technology team including FEAR2 and Condemned 2 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC•Responsible for all Physics, Cloth, Soft-Body and Vehicle development implemented in C++ in proprietary game engine written in C++

•Responsible for planning, development and optimization of game physics for two online PS3 FPS titles MAG and SOCOM 4 implemented in C++

•Designed and implemented UX, Save-Load, in-game video playback, physics systems and weapons for PS2/PC/XBOX console game Evil Dead Regeneration written in C++ with FMOD, Bink, RenderWare and Havok Physics•Responsible for all gameplay physics, ground and air vehicles and sound engineering for an Xbox 360/PC/PS3 console game written in C++ in Unreal Engine including integrating FMOD sound library

•Sole developer for TerrainScope software written in C++/OpenGL and installed at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium •Developed 3D visualization software and provided on-site support for NASA Ames for Mars Rover Missions

•Developed simulation software and provided systems analysis and briefings for confidential customers. C++, Java, Fortran

EventScope : Mars Exploration Interface•Developed the full stack for educational video game similar to 3D PowerPoint piloted in Pittsburgh Public Schools leveraging Mars Pathfinder data•Developed the editor with Java 3D and Swing and the backend with Java Servlets•Developed an optimized viewer using C++ and OpenGL