Adam Harwood
Head Of Engineering at Avantis Education
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Harwood is a Head of Engineering with a decade of experience building R&D-driven teams and delivering interactive XR products from prototype to production. Based in Bristol, he has led cross-functional engineering groups at Ultraleap and Avantis Education, focusing on hand-tracking, mid-air haptics, tooling and UX research. He combines hands-on technical authority with people leadership—recruiting and growing high-performing teams that ship on time and to budget. His work includes patent-backed innovations in 3D spatial object representation using haptics, reflecting a practical bent for turning research into tangible capabilities. Comfortable bridging research, product and delivery, he thrives in roles that push the boundaries of immersive interaction.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, 2.1, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, 2.1 at University of Bristol
Github Skills (16)
leap-motion10
hand-tracking10
unity3d9
sdk8
shadergraph7
virtual-reality7
openxr6
gitlab5
gitlab-api4
blueprint4
experiment4
plugin4
physics4
unreal4
python4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LearnHub/open-brush
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Open Brush is the open source, community led evolution of Tilt Brush! Forked from https://github.com/googlevr/tilt-brush
Contributions:28 pushes, 4 branches, 5 tags in 7 months
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