Finn Sinclair
Sr. SW Engineer - Engineering Lead For Applied AI at Apple
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFinn Sinclair is a Senior AR/VR Software Engineer with a decade of experience building end-to-end XR systems, now contributing to Apple's Vision Products Group after formative roles at Microsoft and in academia. He combines deep research roots in high-performance runtimes and graphics with hands-on product work across middleware, interaction design, and volumetric 3D UIs, yielding a pragmatic UX-driven approach to low-latency, power-aware AR experiences. Finn has shipped interaction systems and prototypes for HoloLens and contributed to the widely used Mixed Reality Toolkit, focusing on UI, experimental features, and robust refactors. Comfortable spanning kernels-to-prototypes, he pairs performance-awareness with design sensibility—helping teams create stable APIs for enterprise use while exploring novel input modalities like hand, speech, and eye gaze. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare blend of academic rigor (coauthoring award-winning XR systems research) and production discipline that accelerates hardware-constrained innovation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at The Bishop's SchoolBachelor's of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's of Science, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Github Skills (11)
uid10
virtual-reality10
csharp10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
windows-mixed-reality10
augmented-reality10
dotnet-core10
unity3d10
hololens9
ux-design9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity
May 2020 - Jan 2023
This repository is for the legacy Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) v2. For the latest version of the MRTK please visit https://github.com/MixedRealityToolkit/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:349 reviews, 317 commits, 260 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Finn contributed to various aspects of the Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) v2, focusing on UI and experimental features. Their work included implementing new drawing string concepts, related to the "Drawstring" experimental feature and elastic systems for manipulation, suggesting a focus on user interaction and control. The commits show refactoring and cleanup efforts, enhancing the code's overall quality and preperation for PR merges.
mrtkholotoolkitholotoolkit-unitymixed-realityhololens
Zee2/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) provides a set of components and features to accelerate cross-platform MR app development in Unity.
Contributions:505 commits, 597 pushes, 119 branches in 2 years 8 months
mrtk
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