Summary
Shreyas Potnis is an engineering manager and experimental physicist with 12 years of experience designing and delivering optical systems for AR displays and precision atomic experiments. At Google he leads the AR Display Subsystem and See-through stack, blending deep optics expertise with growing software and systems engineering skills. His background includes waveguide leadership, diffractive optics for consumer smartglasses, and building compact atomic frequency standards and ultra-cold atom apparatus in academia. He is comfortable moving between hands-on lab engineering—lasers, vacuum systems, servo electronics—and product-focused optical architecture. Based in Toronto, he brings a pragmatic, build-first mentality to ambiguous, physics-driven problems and an appetite for learning software craftsmanship alongside hardware innovation.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at University of Toronto
English, Hindi, Marathi