Sky Rolnick
Chief Product Officer at CUNY New York City College of Technology
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSky Rolnick is a product and technology leader with 11 years of experience building interactive, immersive, and scalable experiences across AR/VR, social XR, and metaverse retail initiatives. As Chief Product Officer at Unified Brand Experience Lab and founder of several XR ventures, he blends hands-on software engineering and game design with strategic R&D to deliver technologies like glasses-free 3D, holographic displays, and shoppable in-store systems. He teaches mixed reality and Unity development at City Tech, mentoring students to ship AR/VR games and practical ML-driven interactions. Sky’s background is unusually deep: a PhD in nuclear particle physics where he probed early-universe conditions, a perspective he leverages to solve complex technical problems and architect large concurrent systems (including a 20K-user web-based social VR). Based in New York, he partners with Fortune 500 brands, artists, and creatives to turn experimental R&D into commercial retail and collaboration products.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS Physics, MS Physics at Colorado State UniversityBS Physics Mathematics Chemistry, BS Physics Mathematics Chemistry at Southern Oregon UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at University of California, Riverside
Github Skills (80)
pose10
human-pose-estimation10
machine-vision10
realsense10
in-app-purchase10
cpp10
face10
caffe10
intel10
sdk10
computer-vision10
payment-methods10
camera-api10
face-detection10
openpose10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MTEC-2120/ReaktorMidiController
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 16 pushes in 11 months
skymeson/MTEC-2120-Terrain
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes in 1 month
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