# Chayan Vinayak

> Product Design Prototyping at Meta | Founder Takdhin-Tv | Author Shaderdev.com

Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chayanvinayak

## Work Experience
### Product Design Prototyper @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Present | Menlo Park
Pioneered XR Prototyping Tool: Independently engineered the most advanced Figma-to-Unity pipeline to date, significantly accelerating the transition from UI-design to interactive XR prototypes. Today, it has evolved into a core team project and powers prototyping workflows across all of Reality Labs, enabling designers and engineers to rapidly iterate in immersive environments.

Led XR Education & Mentorship Programs: Designed and delivered comprehensive onboarding and training programs for XR prototyping. Conducted office hours and 1:1 mentorships that helped bring numerous ideas from concept to shipping features.

Invented AR Makeup Technique: Developed the first 3D makeup technique for Instagram face effects. Filed a patent covering a holistic AR beauty solution, pushing the boundaries of augmented reality cosmetics. (https://patents.justia.com/inventor/chayan-goswami)

Optimized AR Pipeline for Scale: Streamlined Instagram’s face-effects pipeline to enable scalable collaboration with external agencies. Improved mobile performance and ramped up a team of technical artists to support rapid production.

Shipped Core VR OS Features: Prototyped and developed several foundational features for VR operating systems, contributing to the next generation of immersive computing platforms.

### Founder & Creative Director @ Takdhin Tv
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Takdhin.tv | youtube.com/takdhintv

### Founder @ G-Productions, llc
Jan 2015 – Present | California, United States
• "The Science & Spirituality of Meditation" : https://tinyurl.com/493rwbse
Produced, directed and published a documentary on iTunes and Amazon
 
• "Yukti" game : https://tinyurl.com/ze3t63x8
Developed and published a mobile based Unity game on Ios and Android

• "Planet HD" game : https://tinyurl.com/5e3c3a3n
Developed and published an Ios game

### Product Design Prototyper @ Oculus VR
Jan 2018 – Present | Menlo Park

### Author and Instructor @ Shaderdev.com
Jan 2013 – Present | Online
•  Shader Development Using Unity (http://shaderdev.com)
          - Created & published a 72-chapter/16 hour course to help others learn complex concepts of Shader development. Trusted by many companies like Sony, Samsung Research, Ubisoft and Audi etc.

•  Maya Python API (CGCircuit.com)
          - Created & published a 20-chapter/9 hour course that teaches Maya Python API development. Trusted by hundred of industry professionals. This course is a 5-star rated course. (https://www.cgcircuit.com/course/maya-python-api)

### Technical Artist @ Instagram
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park
• 3d-AR Make-up - Came up with different 3d AR make techniques including 3d-eye lashes and integrated with in the effects published.
• Created AR-camera effects at Instagram (Spark AR, Reactive JS)
• Built optimization tools for AR-effects. (Python and PyQt)
• Wrote and optimized shader for AR-camera effects (GLSL).

### Senior Technical Artist @ Disney Interactive
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, California
Starwars Commander and Unannounced Project : 
- Art-asset pipeline (Python and Maya API)
- Front end features, Unity Shaders and game-play asset integration. (C#, CG-shaders)

### Technical Artist @ Disney Interactive
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto, California

### Technical Artist @ Disney Interactive
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

### Associate Technical Artist @ Electronic Arts
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
Worked as Rigging Technical Artist, Tools and Graphics engineer. 
Mixed Martial Arts Game - Rigged 8 body type for different fighters, wrote scripts to drive secondary joints, muscle simulation and cloth, converted MEL code to C++ code to establish 1:1 relation between Maya and proprietary engine (same C++ code was also integrated in game).  
NCAA & MADDEN - Assisting a team of Animators/Artist for NCAA. Tools development, support, debugging, porting art assets to game, troubleshooting, R&D and communication is a big part of daily roles.

### Technical Artist Intern @ Electronic Arts
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
Technical Artist Intern.

### Sponsored Tutor of Flash, Action Script and Php @ Savannah College of Art and Design
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008


## Education
### Master of Arts (M.A.) in Visual Effects
Savannah College of Art and Design

### MCA in Computer Science
Govt. Engineering College, Bikaner

### Air Force School, Bikaner


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chayan-vinayak
- Portfolio: http://www.chayanvinayak.info
- Portfolio: http://www.tiburon.com
- Portfolio: http://chayanvinayak.blogspot.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13