Hiukim Yuen
Software Engineer at Softmind Ltd
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHiukim Yuen is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building web, AR/VR, and machine learning systems, currently working as a Machine Learning Generalist at Meta. He founded MindAR.org and created MindAR.js, an open-source WebAR SDK with 1000+ stars, and teaches Web AR development through a highly rated Udemy course, demonstrating a rare blend of open-source impact, education, and productization. As co-founder of Softmind Ltd and earlier startups, he has shipped production computer-vision and voice AI features while bridging research-grade ML with web-first developer tooling. His background spans full-stack engineering, site reliability, and applied ML across companies including ElevenLabs and Google, informed by advanced studies at McGill and ANU. Notably, he focuses on making AR accessible on the web—publishing free tools and educational content that lower the barrier for developers to build and deploy AR experiences.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)Australian National UniversityMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at McGill University
Github Skills (72)
threejs10
marker10
pipeline-framework10
webar10
deep-learning10
pitch10
stream-processing10
mind-ar10
streaming10
calculator10
face10
javascript10
video-processing10
tensorflowjs10
location10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hiukim/mind-ar-js-doc
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Documentation of mind-ar-js
Contributions:4 commits, 4 PRs, 42 pushes in 4 months
javascriptar-jsmindmind-ar
hiukim/mind-ar-js
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Web Augmented Reality. Image Tracking, Face Tracking. Tensorflow.js
Contributions:12 releases, 2 reviews, 50 commits in 2 years 3 months
tensorflowjsimage-trackingrealityjavascriptwebar
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