Valarie Adams is a software engineering manager with 8–9 years of experience leading teams across XR startups and enterprise environments, currently managing Illumix’s Core Technologies team to integrate AR and ML improvements into a platform-agnostic SDK. She blends hands-on Unity/C# development and systems engineering with leadership experience—from cofounding a game studio to leading cross-functional teams at Carvana and BadVR—consistently delivering projects on time and shipping production-ready features. Her background spans AR/VR, web stacks, payment APIs, and IoT, and she frequently toggles between managerial duties by day and web/graphics/game engineering by night. Based in Lehi, Utah, she brings an entrepreneurial mindset and product-focused pragmatism, with a track record of bridging CV research and developer tooling to accelerate platform adoption.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Arizona State University
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science at Northern Arizona University
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