Wayne Piekarski
Software Engineer at Meta
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolWayne Piekarski is a seasoned software engineer with 25 years of experience building systems at the intersection of operating systems, mobile, AR/VR, IoT, and wearables, currently contributing to Meta Reality Labs. Formerly a Developer Advocate at Google for Fuchsia, Android, and IoT, he has designed SDKs, developer tools, and training programs while speaking to thousands of engineers worldwide. His career blends deep research—earning a PhD in augmented reality and co-directing a wearable computing lab—with hands-on engineering at Qualcomm and in commercial VR integrations. A long-time open source and Linux advocate, he also contributes to flight simulator projects and designs custom IoT hardware with surface-mount electronics and 3D printing. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area but originally from Adelaide, Australia, he’s now exploring full ocean depth robot vehicle design as a personal technical passion.
25 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Augmented Reality, 3D User Interfaces, PhD, Augmented Reality, 3D User Interfaces at University of South Australia
Stackoverflow
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android
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android-gradle-plugin
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Github Skills (84)
network-protocol10
arduino-library10
x-plane10
android-wear10
android-gradle-plugin9
adafruit9
android9
gradle9
apk9
android-studio9
pressure9
gfx8
graphic8
windows8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
waynepiekarski/XPlane748EFB
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
google/wear-sensors
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
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