Summary
Shayan Javed is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building high-performance graphics and platform software, currently contributing to Meta’s AR Spatial Rendering efforts powering Spark AR across multiple apps and devices. He brings deep systems and graphics expertise in C++, OpenGL, Vulkan and Metal, with a track record shipping consumer devices and features at scale—from Portal hardware to Android camera platforms and Tegra-based consoles. Prior work at Nvidia focused on graphics performance, power optimization and tooling for Android and gaming platforms, reflecting a strong blend of low-level optimization and cross-platform engineering. With graduate research background and years teaching core CS courses, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with practical delivery, often navigating complex cross-team requirements to make novel AR experiences feasible. An unspoken strength is his history of shipping on constrained devices, which informs pragmatic, performance-first design choices in production graphics engines.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computer Science, Mathematics, B.Sc, Computer Science, Mathematics at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at University of Florida