Aakarsh Singh

• Designed and built the entire product end to end: visual archive exploration, ensemble clustering UI, contextual metadata display, and import flows. 100+ designers, artists, and researchers onboarded in closed beta; ~10,000 reference items processed across user archives.
• Built the clustering layer that organizes image archives by theme and visual similarity without manual tagging, including re

Lead developer on a mixed reality and VR multi-gallery installation for standalone Quest 3, built in Unity with the Meta XR SDK. Reduced scene memory usage by 60% while maintaining 90 FPS and implemented real-time NoSQL synchronization.

• Lead developer on a mixed reality and VR multi-gallery installation for standalone Quest 3, built in Unity with the Meta XR SDK.
• Reduced scene memory usage by 60% on 3D-scanned and artist-generated assets while holding a stable 90 FPS on the standalone headset.
• Implemented real-time NoSQL synchronisation so multiple Quest devices stay in the same world state across a multi-room install.
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• Invited to teach at "Playful Cartographies," a two-week AA Visiting School programme in Warsaw.
• Taught international architecture and PhD students to script and build interactive, spatial work in Unreal Engine and Unity.

• Shipped the company's main site and leaderboard in Next.js/TypeScript. Weekly active users went from 25 to 250 over three months.
• Built the social layer: profiles, friend connections, engagement flows. In-app engagement doubled within the first month after launch.
• Built an enterprise-side dashboard with Stripe payouts, automated Twilio reports, and data visualisations. Partner retention up 2

• Built immersive Unreal Engine environments and Niagara particle systems for commercial productions.
• Wired motion capture and volumetric capture into the production pipeline, cutting turnaround by 35%.
• Work presented at the NYU engineering research conference and at ArtsIT: 13th EAI International Conference.

• Built and shipped an AR filter for a BMW lifestyle-magazine campaign in Meta Spark Studio, faking volumetric 3D under a tight filter memory budget with custom rotation-tracking billboard and refraction shaders.
• Built Cinema4D assets and wrote custom shaders for Meta Spark Studio, halving rendering time on the production pipeline.
• Prototyped a spatial audio game in Unity for visually impaired

• Worked with Ei Wada and crew on building electromagnetic musical instruments out of obsolete electronics: CRT displays, electric fans, barcode scanners.
• Helped with electronics, instrument fabrication, and live show setup.
• Helped stage the ensemble's Fuji Rock Festival 2022 performance.

• Built a Serum DEX-based decentralised exchange and a Metaplex NFT marketplace.
• Featured on Solana's ecosystem page.

• Built a competitive programming portal in React, Firebase, and Node.js.
• Mentored by Apple and Microsoft engineers.

Pursued a Bachelor of Arts in Interactive Media with minors in Computer Science, Sound & Music Computing, and Art History.

Minors: Computer Science, Sound & Music Computing, Art History

Semester Abroad

Semester Abroad