Seasoned Technology leader with 15+ years building impactful products and teams in the areas of Maps, AR & VR, Data Visualization, Computer Graphics and Machine Learning at companies like Meta, Uber and Twitter.
Building the next generation mapping platform for Augmented and Virtual Reality experiences.
I lead a 100ppl organization across map editing, integrity and validation, basemap (OSM, OMD, Satellite, Aerial, StreetView) data processing and ingestion, Place/POI data, 2D (raster, vector) and 3D tiling and rendering, pedestrian routing and navigation, and open data community management.
Maps products are used by 40+M DAU in 100s of surfaces in the Family of Apps delivering ~100K+ map views per second.
Built a 50+ eng organization that delivered industry-level software for advanced visualization of geospatial, self-driving and business data at Uber generating partnerships with multiple teams and external organizations.
This tech is now part of the offering of Unfolded.ai (acquired by Foursquare in 2021).
Technical lead for external data visualization work, owning the delivery platform and release process, partnering with the data editor, Media, Comms and Marketing teams.
Gave dozens of internal and external talks; published academic work; developed impactful open source software; mentored various engineers in the organization.
Lead Architect for the Graphics team at Sencha. My team built the graphics framework shipped with ExtJS and Sencha Touch products.
My team produced graphics and visualization frameworks like for advanced WebGL-based data visualization and the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, that were used by organizations like Google, Mozilla and The White House.
In charge of developing recommendation systems for the French search engine Exalead. Also working on advanced visualizations and mining of data for R&D use-cases. Exalead was acquired by Dassault Systemes (DSY) in 2010.