Josh Faust
Founding Engineer at Pixelry LLC
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Faust is a founding engineer and generalist programmer with 15 years of experience building production systems spanning robotics, low-latency audio/video, networking, mobile, and 3D technologies. He combines deep C++ and systems expertise—demonstrated by rewriting core ROS libraries and optimizing tf2 transform lookups—with product-facing UI and AR work at companies like Magic Leap, Torch, and Suitable Technologies. As a former CTO and principal architect, he blends hands-on coding with technical leadership, shipping SDKs, realtime pipelines, and developer tools that scale from embedded devices to mobile apps. He continues to consult on 3D platforms and co-found startups from Portland, Oregon, bringing both startup grit and engineering rigor. A less obvious strength is his track record of performance-driven engineering (cache and algorithm-level improvements) in open-source robotics projects, showing he optimizes both user experience and system internals.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (7)
data-structures10
algorithms10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
ros10
data-structure10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ros/geometry2
Oct 2010 - Oct 2010
A set of ROS packages for keeping track of coordinate transforms.
Role in this project:
Performance Engineer
Performance EngineerContributions:9 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Josh's contributions primarily focused on optimizing the performance of `lookupTransform` within the `tf2` library. They implemented several iterations of speed improvements, including changes to the internal data structures and algorithms used for transform lookups. These optimizations included caching, reducing memory footprint, and refactoring code related to extrapolation, leading to significant performance gains.
roboticsros-packagesroscoordinatekeeping
jfaust/FBX2glTF
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
A command-line tool for the conversion of 3D model assets on the FBX file format to the glTF file format.
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
command-line-tool3d-modelsfile-formatvolume-renderingcollada
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