Jeff Hegedus
Retired
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Hegedus is a veteran engineering leader and founder with a deep specialization in augmented and virtual reality, devoting nearly a decade to building XR platforms and prior decades delivering large-scale defense, aerospace, and enterprise systems. He led Unity’s XR engineering teams and built the world’s most popular AR/VR development toolkit, founded 22nd Century Tech to commercialize multi-user AR platforms, and architected mission-critical programs like GPS OCX and helmet-mounted AR for Army helicopter pilots. Comfortable from hands-on C++/OpenGL/DirectX development to executive architecture and business development, he has driven full lifecycle delivery, technical standards, and DevSecOps transformations across startups and $multi-billion defense portfolios. A practiced public speaker and builder of hardware prototypes, he blends pragmatic engineering with inventive prototyping and has repeatedly translated research-grade capabilities into deployable products. His background in honors physics from Purdue informs a systems-level, measurement-driven approach to solving complex, real-world problems.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Honors Physics, B.S. Honors Physics at Purdue University
Github Skills (72)
xbox10
directxtk10
uwp10
winrt9
sink9
logger9
desktop9
directx9
logging9
cpp-library9
uwp-apps8
api8
linux8
async8
cpp8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
22ndtech/ndtech-magicdraw-eclipse
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 5 months
jjhegedus/ndtech-flux-staging
Feb 2021 - May 2022
Gitops IAC repo for the ndtech staging kubernetes cluster
Contributions:55 pushes in 1 year 3 months
k8skubernetesiackubernetes-clustercluster
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