I am a Software Engineering Manager at Apple Inc. Before that, I wasCo-Founder and CTO of PullString Inc. and was Founder and CEO of CodeReddy Inc. I have also led software engineering teams at Pixar, LindenLab, and SRI International. I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science, am theauthor of over 40 published articles, 9 issued patents, and I havewritten 2 computer science text books.This site requires Javascript to be enabled.CareerApple Inc.I lead a team of talented software engineersworking on delivering new capabilities for Apple products.Apple Web SitePullString Inc.I was Co-Founder and CTO ofPullString, Inc. for 8 years. PullString was a Softare-as-a-Service (SaaS) companyproviding a platform to create conversation experiences and apps on various voice platforms such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.We provided conversational AI and dialog management solutions aswell as a powerful authoring environment to design, test, and deployvoice applications.PullString Web SiteCode Reddy Inc.I was the Founder and CEO ofthe technology consultancy Code Reddy Inc. Through this position Iprovided software design and development services for varioustechnology clients, including Linden Lab, WeidlingerAssociates, and Planet 9 Studios. My work for Linden Lab involvedimprovements to the Second Life client, an online 3D virtual worldused by over 20 million people worldwide.Bakery Animation StudioI was an EngineeringManager at The Bakery, a startup animation studio in the south ofFrance. In this role I had responsibility for architecting anddesigning the studio's 3D animation software, as well as managing theteam of engineers tasked with implementing the software.Pixar Animation StudiosI was a LeadEngineer in Pixar's R&D department for 6 years. In this role Iwas responsible for managing a team of engineers designing andimplementing Pixar's in-house film-making software system,Marionette. My work was used on the films: Finding Nemo, Cars,The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and WALL-E. My headwas also used as a model for Mr. Incredible.Mr. Incredible's Head |My IMDB Page |Pixar's Web SiteSRI InternationalI worked at SRIInternational for 5 years as a Research Engineer. My primary projectwas a distributed 3D terrain visualization system calledTerraVision. This effort also involved international standards-basedwork as chair of the GeoVRML working group (I was the author of allthe geospatial nodes in the VRML and X3D ISO standards), and work ona scheme to index all geospatial information on the Internet, referredto as the GeoWeb.TerraVision |GeoVRML |GeoWeb |SRI's Web SitePublicationsMy book: API Design for C++
I wrote a
book called API Design for C++, published by Elsevier/Morgan
Kaufmann in 2011. This book focuses on how to design robust and
elegant Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) with a focus on the
C++ language. The accompanying web site provides source code examples
and a blog with articles on good API design.API Book Site |
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