Daniel Beauchamp
Principal Engineer - AR VR at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Beauchamp is a Principal Engineer and head of Shopify’s AR/VR team with 16 years of experience building web and spatial computing platforms. He leads strategy and prototyping for VR commerce and has driven 3D-first product initiatives that make interactive models core to merchant storefronts. A seasoned full-stack engineer and early Shopify tools lead, he helped architect client-side frameworks and shipped one of the company’s most popular open-source projects. He co-chaired a Khronos Group task sub-group to standardize 3D commerce (gltf material variants), and contributes front-end improvements to prominent open-source projects like Google’s model-viewer. Based in Ottawa, he blends product vision, standards work, and hands-on engineering to move AR/VR from prototype into scalable merchant experiences.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Software Engineering, Summa Cum Laude (98%), Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Software Engineering, Summa Cum Laude (98%) at University of Ottawa / Université d'OttawaCEGEP diploma, Pure & Applied Sciences, CEGEP diploma, Pure & Applied Sciences at Champlain St. Lambert
English, French, Swedish
Github Skills (7)
css10
javascript10
web-components10
model-viewer10
3d-models9
augmented-reality8
threejs7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
google/model-viewer
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Easily display interactive 3D models on the web and in AR!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 175 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the model-viewer repository. Their work included adding a CSS property for progress bar height, modifying the interaction policy, and refining the model's visibility behavior. Furthermore, the user implemented changes related to auto-rotation functionality, ensuring that the model pivot is correctly controlled. These commits focused on enhancing the user experience and customizing the viewer's behavior.
3d-modelsgltfmodel-viewerglbthree-js
pushmatrix/OCTransmid
Apr 2010 - Feb 2013
Contributions:17 commits in 2 years 11 months
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