Summary
Justin Barnett is a Principal AI Engineer with six years of hands-on experience fusing AR/VR and AI to build immersive, production-ready experiences and developer-first tooling. He has led teams, founded and staffed startups, and raised funding to simplify multiplayer VR while driving AI adoption and hiring engineers who think "AI-first." Technically fluent across Unity, C#, Laravel, Vue, Next.js, cloud platforms, and LangChain, he moves ideas from prototype to scale and automates slow processes to accelerate delivery. A former VR bootcamp instructor and guest speaker at industry forums, he blends teaching, product intuition, and practical engineering. Justin’s career arc—starting with class websites in middle school and evolving through CTO and senior roles—reveals a pattern of finding new tech early and pushing it until it breaks.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering at Kennesaw State University