Wasif Islam
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolWasif Islam is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10 years of experience specializing in VR, computer graphics, and simulation. He has built production graphics engines and custom 3D libraries across roles at Aurora Solar, Standard Cognition, and Apple, and currently ships software at Meta. His work blends research-grade techniques (face rendering and LiDAR-based detection from earlier research) with pragmatic engineering—e.g., a 50x GPU-backed speedup for irradiance computation and a synthetic data pipeline to improve tracking. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs algorithmic depth from MS/ MEng training with hands-on systems work, visualization, and testing frameworks that lower development friction. Colleagues know him for turning complex 3D problems into intuitive developer tools and fast, deployable systems. He brings a rare mix of academic research experience and production-grade graphics and simulation engineering.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Robbinsdale Cooper High SchoolMaster of Engineering - MEng Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Electronics and Communications Engineering at Sun Yat-sen UniversityClara Barton Open SchoolMaster of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Arts Physics Math Asian Studies, Bachelor of Arts Physics Math Asian Studies at St. Olaf College
Japanese, French, Bengali, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
pcap6
lidar-data6
lidar6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
washifu/porygon
Apr 2018 - May 2022
Graphics Gallery
Contributions:1 review, 18 PRs, 33 pushes in 4 years 1 month
gallerygraphics
washifu/thesisblog
Feb 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:295 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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