Andy MacDonald

Blindly manipulating symbols for great good and profit

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Facebook Reality Labs (formerly Oculus Research)
    Aug 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 11 mos

    Prototyping systems for future Oculus products.

  • Software Engineering Manager at Tableau Software
    Sep 2015 - Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Improving the way Tableau's family of visualization products queries your data

  • Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
    Apr 2008 - Sep 2015 · 7 yrs 6 mos

    From June, 2011 to September, 2015, worked on Windows Holographic for HoloLens, Microsoft's holographic computing platform. Developed holographic APIs for building immersive applications making full use of the HoloLens' rendering capabilities and the Holographic Processing Unit. Previous to this, worked on interface design for Avatar Kinect, a product which added face tracking capabilities to the Kinect camera. From 2008 to 2010, built user interfaces for the Bing search engine, including the first integration of the Facebook social graph into Bing search results.

  • Director of Online Technology at Seattle Times Company
    Sep 2006 - Mar 2008 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Oversaw the technology development for the Seattle Times and Post Intelligencer online network, including nwsource.com and seattletimes.com. Check out search.nwsource.com, the latest addition to the family of sites.

  • Founder and CTO at Blogarithm.com
    Jul 2005 - Sep 2007 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Blogarithm was a service to connect bloggers and their readers through email notifications. I created it with Max Minkoff in 2005. In September of 2007, we sold it to RSSFWD, an East Coast blog aggregator.