Aaron Young
Principal Engineer at PolarisAR
Wylie, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Young is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building embedded, computer vision, and motion-control systems, currently advancing AR navigation for surgical applications at PolarisAR. He combines deep low-level expertise from roles in telecom test systems and CNC/milling control with recent work in SLAM, structured light 3D reconstruction, and real-time visualization to bridge research ideas and production-grade products. Known for squeezing performance from constrained systems, he has delivered algorithmic speedups (including a ~20x motion-profile solver) and hybrid OpenCL/CPU solutions for complex numerical problems. Aaron mentors teams and shapes engineering culture toward creativity, diversity, and fearless experimentation while keeping a sharp focus on clinical impact and usability. Based in Wylie, Texas, he holds an MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from UT Dallas and enjoys applying academic advances to practical, safety-critical tools that give surgeons a measurable edge.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering Telecommunications, Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering Telecommunications at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (39)
cpp8
windows7
cmake7
servant7
c-library7
package-manager6
swig6
visual-studio6
linux6
macos5
nvidia5
cil5
cpu5
cross-platform5
setuptools5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
maaron/jvm
Oct 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:29 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 5 months
maaron/parse
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:97 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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