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Zaid Kamil

Mid-level XR Software Engineer specializing in real-time AR/VR digital twins

z/R MapCalifornia State University, Dominguez HillsLos Angeles, CA8 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Built and owned an end-to-end real-time IoT telemetry backend that powers a digital twin experience on a Meta Quest headset, integrating Cisco LoRaWAN sensors and external REST data sources. Migrated from Azure Functions to a FastAPI service to overcome firewall constraints, add caching/fallback reliability, and significantly reduce operating cost while improving performance and evolvability.

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Key Strengths

  • End-to-end ownership of a backend system from thesis to startup project
  • Designed low-latency real-time IoT-to-digital-twin architecture for multiplayer VR
  • Pragmatic architecture tradeoff decisions (serverless to FastAPI) to reduce cost and improve performance
  • API reliability patterns: caching plus fallback to last-known-good data
  • Security-in-depth implementation: JWT auth, endpoint permissions, database RLS, and MFA
  • Risk-managed migration execution via parallel run and incremental rollout with schema validation
  • Proactively identified hardware/offline edge cases (sensors unavailable) and hardened system behavior

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Experience

Founder & Software Engineerz/R Map · Sep 2023 – Jan 2026freelance
XR Software EngineerToro Auxiliary Partners · Jul 2024 – Jan 2026
Information Technology AssistantDivision of Information Technology, California State University – Dominguez Hills · Feb 2022 – Dec 2025
Software Engineering InternMindHome Inc · Mar 2024 – Nov 2024internship
Mixed Reality Software ResearcherTexas A&M University Research · Sep 2018 – Dec 2021
Virtual Reality Software ResearcherTexas A&M University – Research Computing · Jan 2017 – May 2017

Education

California State University, Dominguez Hillsmaster, Computer Science (2025)
Texas A&M Universitybachelor, Chemical Engineering (2020)

Awards

  • Institutional recognition (2020) - Texas A&M University – Research Computing

Languages

English

Certifications

Cybersecurity FundamentalsAzure FundamentalsIBM Z SystemsAWS Cloud Practitioner

Publications

3 publications

Mixed reality educationVirtual reality training simulationsXR visualization of industrial/desalination systemsReal-time data integration and visualization in XR

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Zaid KamilMid-level XR Software Engineer specializing in real-time AR/VR digital twins