David Zielinski
Senior AR VR Technology Specialist In The Office Of Information Technology (OIT)
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorDavid Zielinski is a Senior AR/VR Technology Specialist at Duke University with over two decades of experience in virtual reality development, research, mentoring, and education. He combines instructor-level Unity expertise with hands-on work across HTC Vive Pro 2, Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Phone/Tablet AR, and WebXR via BabylonJS, bridging academic research and practical deployments. David leads and mentors a team of 10 student developers building AR/VR experiences for faculty and staff, while collaborating on digital humanities projects that fuse spatial computing with web technologies. His technical breadth spans Unity, C#, C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, audio DSP, and physical computing with Arduino, enabling multidisciplinary prototypes from interactive audio to spatial narratives. Based in Durham, NC, he has steadily progressed through research and academic support roles at Duke since 2004, reflecting deep institutional knowledge and continuity. An unexpected strength is his background exploring social VR and audio/music in platforms like Altspace, underscoring a long-standing interest in the cultural as well as technical dimensions of XR.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (66)
robotics9
trajectory-generation9
manipulation9
motion-planning9
planning9
robot-control9
dynamics9
member8
voronoi7
sound-synthesis7
san7
sdk7
babylonjs7
vtk7
map-editor7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
djzielin/babylonjs-mapping
Mar 2022 - May 2022
utilities to help display maps in babylonjs
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 329 pushes in 1 month
map-editorjavascriptbabylonjsobjectmappermapping
djzielin/altspace-music-modules
May 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:178 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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