Dilan Shah is a founder-engineer with 11 years building AI-enabled, real-time, and XR systems, fluent where product, engineering, and customer needs intersect. He has deep Unity and AR/VR expertise across location-based events, immersive apps, and SDKs, and has shipped consumer-facing mobile and VR products while running his own startup and advising multiple early-stage ventures. Currently accelerating AI workflows and agentic product efforts at Cresta, he balances hands-on engineering with product strategy and GTM execution. Notably, he combines practical zero-to-one experience with cleanup and reliability work—keeping uptime, cloud compute, and compliance operational for live products. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs a USC business background and Computer Science training with an ongoing passion for agentic development and real-time immersive experiences.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Minor Computer Science, Minor Computer Science at University of Southern California
UCSD: Online Course Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to master tough subjects, UCSD: Online Course Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to master tough subjects at Coursera
Virtual Reality Nanodegree, Virtual Reality Nanodegree at Udacity
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Business Administration at USC Marshall School of Business
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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Dilan Shah - Forward Deployed Product Manager at YUR