Life-long learner and teacher. Highly technical product manager and software engineer with a passion for connecting and empowering developers and customers alike. in . Relationship-focused, interactive leadership style, focused on delighting end-users through simple, elegant solutions to complex technical challenges. Collaborative, thoughtful, solutions-oriented approach to customer needs, team challenges, and overall industry trajectory.
🤖 - DevRel Engineer Manager on Google's Android XR
😎 - Passionate about augmented and virtual reality development (aka Spatial Computing). I spent a large part of my career building or helping developers build experiences optimized for spatial computing on both handheld and headworn devices.
📚 - Authored the “Computer Vision for Busy Developers” article series
👨🎓 - Master's Program at Georgia Tech focusing on Machine Learning and Computational Perception and Robotics
🏠 - I am a dad to two boys and I happily give them most of my spare time!
👾 - I enjoy playing both physical and digital games
🛫 - I love to travel and learn about the world - I feel it strengthens my empathy muscles
🪚 - When I can, I enjoy building things out of wood
📷 - I enjoy amature photography - cameras are fascinating machines, aren't they? (I shoot M4/3)
🍞 - Baking is a fun hobbie - I enjoy sharing bread with friends!
- ... to say "Hi" 👋 on
Twitter @vad710BlueSky @vinnydasilva.bsky.social - ... to talk about work 💼 on LinkedIn (I try to keep this updated)
- ... to ask me questions about Computer Vision 📹 on Medium
🤔 I’m currently interested in Computer Vision, Artificial Inteligience, Machine Learning - let's chat!
🇧🇷 Latino of the Brazilian Variety
⚡ Fun fact: I wrote a paper at the intersection of Sociology and Technology
- Lenovo ThinkReality
- Samsung NEXT (RIP Project Whare)
- Vuforia (PTC)
- My own AR/VR consulting company
- Various startups in Enterprise