James Pollack
Owner at Playable Future, LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Pollack is a multidisciplinary software engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building interactive, cross-platform experiences at the intersection of art and engineering. As owner of Playable Future and former Senior Technical Artist on generative AI and AR teams at Meta, he has shipped large-scale, user-facing projects—from web-based interactive TV experiences at Amazon with global reach to real-time facial capture and WebGL shader work at Hyprsense. He blends creative training (MFA in Digital Arts) with deep front-end and graphics expertise, inventing tools and systems for artists, avatars, and spatial UX. An early contributor to OpenAI’s GPT-2 in 2019, he pairs experimental AI work with production-grade engineering and a knack for turning research prototypes into polished products. Based in San Francisco, he excels at bridging creative vision and robust implementation for immersive and generative experiences.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English / Writing Concentration, Bachelor of Arts (BA), English / Writing Concentration at Yale UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
transformers10
threejs10
language-model10
python10
experiences10
render10
daydream10
svg10
deep-learning10
client-server10
3d10
hybrid10
javascript10
openxr10
cannonjs10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
imgntn/prettymuni
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:125 commits, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
imgntn/hifi
Sep 2015 - Sep 2016
Open source software for shared virtual worlds using HMDs and dynamically assigned devices as servers. San Francisco based startup, we are hiring: http://highfidelity.com/jobs Documentation at http://docs.highfidelity.com Contribute by reporting bugs & doing jobs on http://worklist.net
Contributions:22 PRs, 1149 pushes, 204 branches in 1 year
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