Andrew Mchugh
Cofounder, CEO at Wist Labs Inc.
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Mchugh is a product-focused founder and XR design leader with 11 years of experience building immersive experiences and consumer-facing interfaces from prototype to production. As Cofounder and CEO of Wist Labs he is building an app to capture, store, and relive immersive memories, drawing on prior leadership as Senior VR/AR Designer & Team Lead at Samsung Research America. He blends technical prototyping skills, user research, and team-building—having created hiring and intern programs, led design sprints, and validated features through user studies. His background spans startups, agency work, and academia (Carnegie Mellon HCI), and he has a history of founding community ventures like the What If...? conference and a children’s book, reflecting a curiosity-driven approach to product design. Not obvious from the title: he pairs rigorous HCI training with hands-on frontend/dev prototyping, enabling him to move concepts quickly from research to demonstrable experiences.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Philosophy Science of Information Mathematics Physics, B.A. Philosophy Science of Information Mathematics Physics at Westminster College (MO)Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy, Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy at Rutgers UniversityMaster’s Degree Human Computer Interaction, Master’s Degree Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon UniversityKirkwood High SchoolCareer Discovery Program Urban Design, Career Discovery Program Urban Design at Harvard University Graduate School of DesignMaster’s Degree Human Computer Interaction, Master’s Degree Human Computer Interaction at Universidade da Madeira
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (33)
oculus10
threejs10
sandbox9
webgl9
3d9
webvr9
aframe9
daydream9
html9
game-development8
virtual-reality8
augmented-reality8
game-engine8
webxr6
sketch-plugin4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
armthethinker/webVR-experiments
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:676 commits, 29 PRs, 297 pushes in 10 months
sandboxwebvrwebgl
armthethinker/personal-site
Sep 2015 - Jun 2026
My personal site
Contributions:40 PRs, 242 pushes, 21 branches in 10 years 10 months
reactnextjs
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