Varun Mani

Director of Product for Simulation systems and APIs (Geometry, Physics, Interactivity & Rendering) that creators use to make experiences on Roblox.

EdTech venture: Job-ready XR skill development for the next generation of digital talent https://xrterra.com/

Principal Product Manager on Microsoft Mesh

- Researching new means of digital/physical/human interaction to enable frontline workers create, access, and use knowledge on the job. - Providing guidance on Vuforia product architecture

Waypoint Labs was acquired by PTC, Inc in 2018 and is now known as the Advanced Development Group We are continuing to build products that change how frontline workers create, access, and use knowledge on the job.

Waypoint uses Augmented Reality to help businesses to quickly and easily capture and transfer knowledge from their most skilled workers to their entire workforce. Instead of having expert front-line workers spend almost 20% of their day writing documentation, they simply wear a headset and go through their workflow while our software captures and creates holographic workflows that can be used for compliance and training. MIT DeltaV Summer 2017, YCombinator finalist, MassChallenge Class of 2017

- Worked on a special projects team that does quick-turnaround, high-impact prototyping work for HoloLens - Led key technical engagements for HoloLens with high-value internal and external partners including NASA-JPL, Case Western University, various teams within Microsoft Research and Microsoft Studios.

- Program Manager for Hand Tracking, Gesture Recognition and the relevant APIs - Worked closely with ~15 developers to develop Hand Tracking ground-truth and machine learning pipelines - Shipped Gesture and Hand Tracking components for HoloLens at high accuracy and precision levels - Had a pivotal role in bringing up initial HoloLens hardware prototypes by working across the stack (Hardware, Systems, Algorithms, Developer APIs, Shell and Apps) - Technical Lead on every live showing of HoloLens technology including initial announce, BUILD 2015 conference, E3 2015 and Windows 10 Devices event 2015.

- Designed and wrote specifications for all the OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) settings pages in Windows 8.1. - Designed and wrote specifications for the Two Factor Authentication integration in Windows 8.1 - Was responsible for managing the SkyDrive -> OneDrive re-branding changes in Windows 8.1 update 1

Worked on creating the first Alarms app on Windows 8. Designed and wrote specifications for back-end cloud infrastructure to power the initial Weather and News apps on Windows 8. Presented work at the 2011 BUILD conference.

PM Internship at Microsoft in the Storage and File Systems team. Worked on a project to automatically set up a machine for Operating system RAID mirroring. Also worked on some preliminary designs and scenarios for Storage and Filesystems UX

Worked on solar cell demonstrator