Ben Houston
CEO & Founder at Land Of Assets
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Ben Houston is a serial entrepreneur and graphics software engineer with over two decades of experience building industry-leading tools for film, games, and web 3D. As founder/CEO/CTO of companies including ThreeKit, Clara.io, Exocortex and newer ventures Land Of Assets and Super Cognitive, he has scaled teams, raised capital, and delivered production software used on blockbuster films and by major retailers and studios. A long-time contributor to Three.js and a practical researcher with multiple SIGGRAPH/IEEE publications, he blends deep technical expertise in physically-based rendering, fluid simulation and visualization with product and commercialization savvy. His recent open-source and QA work on the widely used google/model-viewer project highlights a continued focus on improving web 3D fidelity and test infrastructure. Based in Ottawa, he pairs a cognitive-science background with hands-on systems architecture, often turning advanced simulation research into reliable, deployable tools. Colleagues know him for shipping high-performance, research-driven graphics systems that bridge Hollywood effects and enterprise 3D commerce.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts with Honors, Cognitive Science (Neuroscience), Bachelor of Arts with Honors, Cognitive Science (Neuroscience) at Carleton University
Stackoverflow
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18answers
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Github Skills (16)
testing10
puppeteer10
web-components10
model-viewer10
test-automation10
3d10
3d-models9
gltf9
javascript9
threejs9
augmented-reality8
64-bit6
webgl6
fileio6
file-format6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
google/model-viewer
May 2021 - Nov 2023
Easily display interactive 3D models on the web and in AR!
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 11 PRs, 60 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ben focused on enhancing the render fidelity testing framework within the `model-viewer` repository. Their work involved optimizing test execution time, improving the test infrastructure, and integrating new tests for anisotropy to improve testing quality. The user made changes to the testing infrastructure, including the artifact creator, test workflows, and CLI configurations. The user also upgraded dependencies used by the test framework.
webvr3d-modelswebgljavascriptwebcomponents
bhouston/template-typescript-monorepo
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Template repo with the latest tech working together
Contributions:4 reviews, 42 PRs, 235 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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