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 (21)
foundation10
unity3d10
wavefront7
obj7
texture6
file-format6
fbx5
collada5
3d-models5
volume-rendering4
command-line-tool4
3d3
android3
ios3
gltf3
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
unity3dunityar-foundationfoundation
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