Anil Unnikrishnan

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San Francisco, California, United States12 yrs experience

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Key Highlights

Led development of innovative home security device.
Pioneered real-time digital human technology at Samsung.
Expert in machine learning and real-time visualization.

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Core Skills

Generative Ai

Other Skills

WebRTCReactWebGLC++Game DevelopmentiOS developmentiOSVirtual RealityUnity3DC#CMobile ApplicationsObjective-CLinuxPython

About

Spearheading the development of a perception-first home security device by building and leading the software engineering team and collaborating closely with the product team to bring the vision to life. Responsibilities include architecting end-to-end software infrastructure with emphasis on optimizing machine learning inference pipelines for NVIDIA platforms (CUDA, TensorRT), building real-time 3D visualization of perception data and video consumption frameworks using GStreamer, and performance-critical C++ systems. Leading technical hiring and driving product milestones from prototype to production. Previously, as a founding member of Samsung STAR Labs (Samsung Technological Advanced Research Lab), played a pivotal role in developing the company’s real-time photorealistic digital human project, bridging the gap between research and product.

Experience

Sauron

2 roles

Head of Software Engineering

Promoted

Feb 2026 – Present · 1 mo

Mobile Engineering Lead

Oct 2024 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos

Samsung research america (sra)

5 roles

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 · 0 mo · Mountain View, California, United States

Developed Samsung's real-time photorealistic digital human, a 0 to 1 product grounded in research and cutting-edge software development.
Customized WebRTC framework to develop streaming of the virtual human rendering, to support real-time communication into consumer devices (including Web, Android and iOS mobile platforms).
Developed the user interaction frontend on React by integrating WebGL shaders for chromakeying the live stream rendering.

Generative AI

Staff Software Engineer

Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs · Mountain View, California, United States

Architected and developed custom animation formats for a real-time interactive photorealistic digital human

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs · Mountain View, California, United States

Architected and developed custom animation formats for a real time interactive photorealistic digital human. Ported animation data to and from Autodesk Maya and Unreal Engine 4 and scripted tools for Autodesk Maya using Python. Collaborated with research institutes from around the world to develop speech and 3D graphic animations and with Samsung Korea as part of the Global Think Tank Team

Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · Mountain View, California, United States

Extended Bixby vision into Samsung Gear VR and implemented content for GearVR to stream content from 360 cameras and from platforms like Youtube and Facebook. Developed 360 mixed reality experiences for Gear VR, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift incorporating TensorFlow for object detection using Unity3D

Software Engineer Summer Intern

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Mountain View, California

Carnegie mellon university

Twitch Plays Game Design Teaching Assistant

Aug 2016 – Dec 2016 · 4 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Area

Collaborated with Jessica Hammer and Jeff Bigham in shaping and developing the semester program. Coordinated with the professionals at Twitch and Amazon Game Studios on conducting workshops. Mentored and supported 50 students and their projects on Unity3D and Amazon Lumberyard. Developed Unity3D project skeletons, which included a chatbot that interfaced with Twitch written in Python, for graduate and undergraduate students.

Cognitiveclouds

iOS Developer

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr · Bangalore

Clever Cricket is an iOS and Android application that focuses on cricket tournaments like the Cricket World Cup or IPL and provide users with a virtual gambling platform for game predictions. Developed custom procedural animations for user interactions using Core Animation framework for iOS. Collaborated with the game design team and implemented application features including live prediction mini-games, global leaderboard and social features. Collaborated with the experience design team for implementation of the user experience and lead the iOS team in development.

Quest technologies inc

iOS Lead

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr · Bangalore

Developed and implemented an iOS application where users can ask and answer geotagged questions. Lead the iOS development team to implement frameworks including MapKit and UIKit. Instrumental in securing a spot as a finalist for the 500 Startups venture program.