Wally Young
Senior Technical Product Manager at Riot Games
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWally Young is a Senior Technical Product Manager with 11 years of experience specializing in graphics, computer vision, and AR/VR platforms, now at Riot Games in Los Angeles. He has a track record of taking research prototypes to shipping products—leading VIO, hardware tracker, and SDK launches at DAQRI and driving developer adoption of ARToolKit. At Accenture he shaped global virtual collaboration strategy, influenced a historic 60k-headset enterprise deployment, and co-founded the Accenture–Microsoft Mesh partnership to accelerate metaverse sales and enterprise onboarding. Wally blends hands-on engineering leadership (Unity, CI/CD, VIO) with strategic sales and cross-disciplinary program management, shortening sales cycles by codifying product metrics and feature evaluations. His background in music composition and theatre hints at a creative design sensibility that informs pragmatic product decisions and user experience focus. He is known for bridging deeply technical teams and executive stakeholders to scale immersive experiences for hundreds of thousands of users.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BM Music Composition Second Major in Theatre, BM Music Composition Second Major in Theatre at Florida State University
German, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
198reputation
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4questions
Github Skills (22)
artoolkit10
unity3d9
backend6
android6
opencv6
objective-c6
ios6
code-behind6
augmented-reality6
appkit4
frontend3
rust3
editor3
music3
cocoa2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wallywyyoung/arunity5
May 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
unity3dartoolkitunity
wallywyyoung/artoolkit_sdl_boilerplate
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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