Luc Oth
Senior Engineering Manager, Computer Vision at Facebook
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolLuc Oth is a Senior Engineering Manager specializing in computer vision and scene understanding for AR/VR, with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and product delivery. A summa cum laude ETH Zurich graduate in autonomous systems, he led award-winning prototypes such as a drone avalanche transceiver and contributed to notable open-source tooling via fixes to the Kalibr visual-inertial calibration toolbox. He co-founded and served as CTO of everyglobe, building cross-functional teams and shipping a psychographic-driven recommendation engine and direct-booking travel platform while also driving strategy, fundraising, and growth. At Meta (Oculus/Facebook) he now leads teams on SLAM, geo-localization and contextual AI for immersive devices, combining deep research fluency with hands-on engineering and product instincts. Known for scaling diverse teams and translating complex research into production, he pairs analytical rigor with an entrepreneurial streak rooted in large-scale student leadership and event organization.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichAthénée de Luxembourg
Luxembourgish, English, German, French, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
deserialization10
c-language10
data-serialization10
cprogramming-language10
boost10
serialization10
calibration9
imu8
camera8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ethz-asl/kalibr
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
The Kalibr visual-inertial calibration toolbox
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Luc primarily focused on fixing compatibility issues and implementing changes related to the Boost library within the Kalibr toolbox. They addressed breaking changes in Boost versions 1.56 and 1.59, modifying archive-related headers and source files. These changes suggest the user was responsible for ensuring the code base remained compatible with different versions of external dependencies and potentially improving the project's ability to handle data serialization and deserialization. The user also fixed test cases and made minor issue fixes.
calibration-toolboximutoolboxcameravisual-inertial
othlu/kalibr
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
calibration-toolboxcalibrationtoolboxkalibr
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