Christopher Kairalla
Product Design Prototyper For AR VR at Meta
Village of Ardsley, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Kairalla is a Design Lead Manager with 15 years of experience crafting spatial UX, Unity3D applications, and AR/VR creation tools at companies including Meta and Samsung. He currently leads design for GenAI creation tools for Meta Horizon after a multi-year run building Creation Tools UX and scripting systems for Horizon Worlds. As a founder and former CTO of VRB (acquired by Samsung), he combined hands-on Unity development, backend services, and product leadership to ship mobile social VR experiences and prototype novel mesh networking platforms. He has deep technical instincts—often coding prototypes himself—paired with a strong design and animation background that spans video effects, VoIP, and cloud architectures on AWS. An adjunct professor for nearly a decade at NYU’s ITP, he brings a humanistic, creative lens to technology and rapid prototyping. Based in Ardsley, NY, he blends entrepreneurial grit with cross-disciplinary team leadership to turn experimental XR concepts into production-ready tools.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MPS, Interactive Telecommunications, MPS, Interactive Telecommunications at New York UniversityBA, Film, Media Studies, BA, Film, Media Studies at Hampshire College
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Github Skills (43)
expressjs10
parse10
rest-api10
backend10
mongodb10
relay10
mbaas9
graphql-api9
object-storage9
nodejs9
file-storage9
graphql9
parse-server8
sdk8
parse-platform8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chris3000/zootopia-playlist-generator
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
Creates Spotify playlists from recent songs played on KZSU Zootopia
Contributions:5 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
songsspotifyspotify-playlistsmusicplaylists
chris3000/Per4ming
May 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:32 commits in 5 months
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