K Marefat is a Principal Engineer in New York with 13 years building real-time, latency-sensitive systems where software architecture maps directly to hardware boundaries. He combines deep hands-on expertise in VR/AR, simulation engines, and native mobile/ML integrations with a track record of optimizing CPU/GPU pipelines and multiplayer networking. At SimX he leads simulation platform improvements and mentors engineers, after advancing medical and training simulations and developer tooling in prior roles. His background spans academia and industry—MFA in Design & Technology and teaching experience—bringing a design-minded approach to systems engineering. Known for modularizing core libraries and pioneering serialized XR world-spaces, he excels at balancing decoupled design with hard performance constraints. Colleagues rely on him to translate research-grade prototypes into production-ready, high-performance products.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Design and Technology, Master's Degree Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design - The New School
Bachelor of Arts Communicatons Studies, Bachelor of Arts Communicatons Studies at Sonoma State University
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