Alan Ross
Senior Staff Technologist at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Ross is a Senior Staff Technologist in San Francisco with ~12 years of hands-on experience bridging interaction design and software engineering to deliver user-centered AI products. He has led cross-functional teams at Google and Salesforce, driving generative-AI and AR initiatives that moved prototypes to production—earning multiple design awards and appearances such as Dreamforce keynotes. Alan combines product-focused engineering (performance, modular deployments, and SLAM/WebAssembly for ephemeral AR) with research-informed methods in human-in-the-loop and agentic systems, and holds several foundational patent filings. His background spans startups and automotive R&D to enterprise design systems, with a consistent track record of shrinking iteration time (e.g., 12X faster design generation) and solving cold-start personalization problems. Notably, he built an open-source AR/SLAM web library and has repeatedly translated complex interaction concepts into scalable engineering solutions.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Information Engineering, Bachelor of Science Information Engineering at University of KonstanzMultimedia Design, Multimedia Design at University of Technology Sydney
English, German
Github Skills (19)
threejs10
webcam10
webar10
slam10
javascript9
browser9
opencv9
webassembly9
augmented-reality8
machine-vision7
tilt6
image-processing6
computer-vision5
gpgpu4
linear-algebra4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alanross/AlvaAR
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
World tracking for WebAR. A Javascript library for Augmented Reality to run SLAM in the browser.
Contributions:50 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 months
javascript-libraryrealitybrowserwebcamjavascript
alanross/defrac
Feb 2014 - Jan 2019
Contributions:140 commits, 1 push in 4 years 11 months
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