Summary
Yashar Bahman is a product leader with 11 years of experience building and shipping perception, tracking, and AR products across Microsoft, Aurora, Cruise, and now Meta Reality Labs. He blends deep technical roots as a former software engineer and founder with program-level ownership—driving SLAM, VIO, machine-learned dead reckoning, and large-scale perception infrastructure for autonomous systems and mixed reality. At Microsoft he helped secure and deliver the $300M IVAS program and shipped WebXR innovations; at startups he has taken products from prototype to revenue and user traction. Known for bridging research, engineering, and product teams, he scales complex technical roadmaps into operational systems and often surfaces practical sensor and systems-level tradeoffs that non-engineering PMs miss.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington College of Engineering
English, Persian, French