Roy Davies
Co-Founder And Director at The University of Auckland
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolRoy Davies is a multidisciplinary technology leader and founder with over a decade of experience building mixed reality, calm-technology, and IoT systems that span low-level controllers to cloud-based AI agents. As Co-Founder and Director of Mariko EarthGrids and a Senior Technician/Professional Teaching Fellow in VR at the University of Auckland, he blends hands-on full-stack development with research-driven UX and human cognition insights. His career includes founding and leading multiple research and commercial ventures in immersive tech, where he has focused on how people perceive and interact with digital systems since the late 1990s. Roy pairs philosophical curiosity about idea propagation and citizen science with practical efforts to surface and test concepts that benefit humanity and the biosphere. Known for calm-technology expertise, he quietly bridges academic rigor (PhD from Lund) with entrepreneurial productisation, advising emerging-tech masters programs and translating interdisciplinary research into usable systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
waitakere collegePhD, PhD at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund UniversityMSc (hons), BSc, MSc (hons), BSc at University of Auckland
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (16)
ubuntu7
camera7
manjaro6
threejs6
fedora6
mapbox-gl-js6
face-recognition6
debian6
opensuse6
pam5
linux4
authentication4
chroot4
windows3
security3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
roycdavies/reality2
Jul 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 200 pushes in 10 months
roycdavies/roycdavies.github.io
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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