Hamid Younesy
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHamid Younesy is a Staff Software Engineer and Ph.D. who combines 11+ years of high-performance game engine and real-time graphics experience with applied machine learning and robotics simulation expertise. He has led cross-functional teams at Meta and Unity to productionize latency-critical, cloud-rendered experiences and large-scale synthetic data pipelines for AI/ML. His career spans architecting XR graphics pipelines, cloud discrete-event simulation for industrial workflows, and shipping mobile and console titles—bringing research prototypes into production-ready systems. Known for hands-on technical leadership, he also secured >$1M in R&D grants and has a track record of building open, extensible tooling for robotics and scientific users. Based in Vancouver, he specializes in bridging complex digital representations and the physical world to accelerate AI-driven platforms.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Software Engineering, B.Sc. Software Engineering at Sharif University of TechnologyPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (49)
unity3d10
webots10
simulation10
robotics10
gazebosim10
trajectory-generation10
openscenegraph10
ignition10
manipulation10
robot10
robot-simulator10
urdf10
scene10
robocup10
pybullet10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hackseq/2016_project_2
Oct 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 10 months
command-line-toolparameterscli
visrsoftware/visr-apps
Nov 2015 - Sep 2018
Collection of R-apps for VisR software
Contributions:30 commits, 5 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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