Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos

• Currently leading the integration of MHE(Meta Horizon Engine) to the Meta family of apps(FB, IG) to drive the ambitious goal of scaling Horizon to 100M+ MAU via FoA.

Jan 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

• 🔹 3D Avatar Mobile Capabilities — Tech Lead (2025)
• Led a team of 7 engineers to deliver next-generation 3D avatar capabilities across Meta's family of apps and Horizon Worlds.
• Driving Interactive Avatars on Horizon Worlds — bringing animated, expressive 3D avatars to Meta's metaverse platform as part of the Avatars 2.0 overhaul announced at Meta Connect 2024 (Road to VR: https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-new-avatar-system-2024/).
• Shipping new avatar experiences including Emotes, Pets, and an AI/LLM-powered Avatar Editor — aligned with Meta's push for deeper body & face customization with parametric sliders (UploadVR: https://uploadvr.com/meta-avatars-deeper-body-face-customization-and-ai-outfit-assist/).
• Uplifted core editor quality metric from ~3% to 40%+ (peak 53%), LE coverage from 56% → 73%, and profile avatar coverage from 23% → 44% through sustained, cross-team execution.
• 🔹 Avatar Editor — Style 2 Live Editing Tech Lead (2024)
• Led the Android engineering effort to launch Meta's next-generation "Style 2" avatar system (Road to VR: https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-new-avatar-system-2024/) with full body and face parametric customization, color sliders, animations, and real-time 3D interactions — across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
• Reduced app-start latency by ~95% (from minutes to seconds) and click-to-render time by ~97% through prefetching strategies, AR-effect pipeline optimizations, and caching architecture.
• Cut peak memory consumption by 40% (2.2GB → 1.3GB), enabling the experience on a much wider range of Android devices.
• Improved stability dramatically — fallback rate reduced from ~40% to <5%; FPS doubled from 10 → 20, unlocking mid-tier devices.
• Designed the modular Android architecture enabling the Avatar Live Editor to deploy across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Horizon from a single codebase.
• Recognized in the top 10% of reliability contributors company-wide for SEV management during high-stakes launches.

Mar 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• 🔹 Avatar Live Editing — First Mobile Launch (2023)
• Android lead for the maiden release of 3D Avatar Live Editing on mobile — the feature that lets users see a real-time, animated 3D preview of their avatar as they customize it.
• Shipped Live Editing on Facebook and Instagram Android under tight resourcing constraints, resolving complex integration challenges across the Spark AR Engine, Avatar SDK, and backend systems.
• Delivered measurable conversion rate improvements — significant NUX and returning-user uplift on both Facebook and Instagram through performance optimizations and UX enhancements.
• Built the canonical performance and stability dashboards used across the Avatar Editor org to diagnose bottlenecks and track launch health.
• Identified and fixed critical launch blockers including complex cross-system rendering issues with no clear ownership — took initiative, filed incidents, rallied cross-team engineers, and shipped fixes.
• 🔹 AR Commerce & Dynamic Ads (2021–2022)
• Founding member of the London AR Shopper Experience team, building augmented reality advertising experiences for Facebook and Instagram (TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/meta-pitches-augmented-reality-to-advertisers-with-new-ar-reels-ads-and-facebook-stories/).
• Built the AR Dynamic Ads camera experience on Android — the full camera pipeline enabling advertisers to let consumers virtually try on products using AR effects. Shipped through multiple Alpha rounds to production.
• Delivered the Instagram Shopping Camera AR integration for virtual product try-ons directly from IG Shops.
• Drove the One Camera migration on Facebook, consolidating the Ads camera onto Meta's unified media stack with camera preview, effect rendering, and performance instrumentation.
• Recognized by cross-functional partners as "an excellent communicator and strong collaborator" bridging Commerce, Shopping Ads, and AR Platform teams.