Founders

“Reformed video games developer,” focused on spatial computing and simulation. His through-line is helping people see better — building tools for civic participation, modeling, and computational democracy.

• Co-developed a 3D tracking and reconstruction library for AR telepresence at Xerox PARC, yielding three patents.
• Shipped immersive 3D and mixed-reality systems at Mozilla R&D.
• As CTO at Liminal AR (Samsung Accelerator, SF), led a team building markerless optical SLAM tracking, and contributed to 6D.ai — later acquired by Niantic for their world models.
• Contributed to several digital-twin projects, including work with the team behind The Matrix films.
• Designed and puppeteered real-time digital actors on The Zero Theorem, working on set with director Terry Gilliam.

An avid scuba diver and hiker.

Engineering, design, and deployment across two decades — spanning civic infrastructure, consumer software at scale, and science communication.

• Built automated test suites and on-device firmware tooling for Los Angeles County’s ballot-marking devices at Smartmatic — systems trustworthy enough for high-stakes public use.
• Managed release engineering and certification for mobile and web games with millions of daily users at Disney Interactive, including COPPA compliance verification.
• Designed and produced research websites and feature articles translating oceanographic research for public audiences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
• UCSD degree in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts.

A passion for Japanese culture and language.