Gabriel Takacs

Director, Core Applications, Google Beam

Issaquah, Washington, United States

About

My passion is to build healthy teams which build high-quality, cutting-edge products. I’m a people-first manager who believes in growing individuals to their maximum potential. As a leader, I aim to create a clear objective and mission statement to pave the path to success while protecting the team from schedule stress. I value trust, accountability, and integrity. I contribute technically through curiosity and leveraging my broad background in science and engineering. I have experience in augmented reality, computer vision, video compression, image processing, optimization, service architecture, electrical engineering, and machine learning. My goal is to be able to deeply understand the consequences of technical decisions, while empowering others to drive decisions where possible.

Experience

  • Google (Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid)
    • Director, Core Applications, Google Beam
      Apr 2026 - Present · 4 mos

      Google Beam (beam.google) Productizing the next generation of telepresence. Leader of the Core Applications team which is responsible for the 3D user experience, camera system software, geometric calibration, head-tracking, compression, cloud compute, networking, and telemetry.

    • Senior Staff Software Engineering Manager
      Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

      Google Beam (beam.google) Productizing the next generation of telepresence. Manager of managers leading the Core Applications team which is responsible for the runtime experience; including the 2D and 3D user experience, camera system software, geometric calibration, head-tracking, compression, cloud compute, networking, and telemetry.

  • Microsoft (9 yrs 8 mos)
    • Principal Software Engineering Manager
      Oct 2019 - Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Engineering manager leading Azure Spatial Anchors.

    • Principal Scientist Lead
      Nov 2017 - Oct 2019 · 2 yrs

      Engineering manager leading computer vision development on Azure Spatial Anchors (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/spatial-anchors/) and HoloLens (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens).

    • Senior Scientist Lead
      Feb 2014 - Nov 2017 · 3 yrs 10 mos

      Computer Vision, Augmented Reality, Tracking, 3D maps, and Mobile application development. Product web-site: photosynth.net Contributing at most levels, from long-term product planning to real-time, mobile computer-vision implementations.

  • Senior Researcher at Nokia
    Jun 2011 - Sep 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Computer vision and augmented reality research and development. Nokia representative, and co-chair of MPEG standardization of Compact Descriptors for Visual Search (CDVS). Research emphasis on real-time recognition and tracking on mobile phones.

  • Graduate Technical Intern at Intel Corporation
    Sep 2010 - May 2011 · 9 mos

    Research and development of an image-based outdoors augmented reality system for the Atom mobile platform. Programming in Linux with C++.

  • Dance Instructor / Disc Jockey at Wednesday Night Hop
    Jan 2005 - Jan 2011 · 6 yrs 1 mo

    Swing dance instructor at various dance venues around the Bay Area, including Swing Central, Wednesday Night Hop, Stanford, and The Rent Party. Specialization in Lindy Hop, Charleston, and Balboa.