Michael Gourlay
Owner at Electric Pineapple, LLC
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Gourlay is a software architect and engineer with 8+ years in industry-leading AR/VR and mixed reality platforms, currently contributing to Meta's AR Core from Seattle. He spent a decade at Microsoft as a principal architect and manager shaping HoloLens tracking, Mixed Reality Platform and Mesh services, designing compute platforms and an application model for collaborative metaverse experiences. His background blends deep research—Ph.D. level computational fluid dynamics and high-performance simulation—with hands-on systems engineering across devices, firmware, computer vision, and cloud services. He has a track record of shipping production head-mounted-device features (inside-out tracking, spatial mapping, HPU instruction design) and leading cross-disciplinary prototyping teams that turned incubations into product. Michael also authored widely-cited technical articles and open-source fluid-simulation tooling that influenced visual effects tooling in industry. Colleagues rely on him for technical strategy, hardware-software co-design, and making ambitious AR concepts practical at product scale.
9 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Harbor City Elementary, Melbourne, FLCentral Junior High, Melbourne, FLWinter Park High School, Winter Park, FLB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPh.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at University of Colorado Boulder
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
imgui10
graphical-user-interface10
api10
cpp10
game-development10
game-engine9
fluid-simulation9
keyboard7
collision7
mouse7
compression6
network6
audio6
png6
windows6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mijagourlay/VorteGrid
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
VorteGrid: Interactive Fluid Simulation for Games and Movies
Contributions:32 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
fluid-simulation
mijagourlay/clumsy
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
clumsy makes your network condition on Windows significantly worse, but in a controlled and interactive manner.
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 months
windows
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