Mike Durand
Software Engineer at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Durand is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader with over two decades of experience and deep expertise in C/C++, Java, C#, and JavaScript, particularly in games, VR/AR, and mobile platforms. He has led and built teams at Unity and Meta, architecting cross-platform XR tooling and developer experiences for devices from mobile AR to next-gen AR glasses. His career spans high-impact roles at Valve (game and Steam ecosystem engineering), Unity (XR SDK and Apple/Google partnerships), and Meta (Quest tooling and Avatars DX), showing a rare blend of hands-on systems work and product-focused leadership. Comfortable as an individual contributor or manager, he’s shipped embedded systems, SDKs, platform integrations, and consumer apps across startups and large companies. Based in Redmond, he brings a pragmatic, partner-oriented approach to platform integration and developer tooling that consistently turns device capabilities into usable cross-platform APIs.
8 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Github Skills (7)
arfoundation10
command-line-tool6
3d-models6
fbx4
gltf4
mobile2
arcore2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Unity-Technologies/upm-xr-arcore
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
arcorepackage-managerarcore-unityunityunity3d
Unity-Technologies/arfoundation-samples
Jun 2018 - Dec 2020
Example content for Unity projects based on AR Foundation
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 6 months
arfoundation
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