# Julien Collins

> Software Engineer at Apple

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/juliencollins

I'm a software engineer who's really passionate about game development. In my free time, I participate in game jams in order to hone my skills as a developer. I find all aspects of game development incredibly intriguing and have worked on networking, optimization and general feature development within this domain.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2022 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Scenario
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Ported 3D AR scan and design app to the Quest 2 as a PoC for immersive VR experiences. Integrated Niantic’s VPS SDK into our app to leverage persistent AR experiences between sessions. Improved gameplay on various in-app minigames as well as overall app feel. Designed and implemented a 3D model auto-cropping algorithm using octrees and ray-casting

### Software Engineer @ Wevr
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Worked as a team to develop two multiplayer virtual reality games. Designed and implemented an in game panel with performance metrics for the virtual reality experiences. Leveraged and modified UE4’s UMG and Statistic systems to display dynamically changing debug information. Developed object pooling for increased efficiency and performance of the different experiences. Designed scripts to optimize the compilation and build processes, as well as the distribution of the applications to different machines

### Software Engineering Intern @ Orange Silicon Valley
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designed and implemented an augmented reality native and web application with facial recognition capabilities. Wrote native application in Unity/C# and web application in HTML/Javascript. Deployed an AWS server for communication between the native or web application and the AWS Rekognition service. Met with various companies to discuss proof of concepts and test various products.

### Lab Intern @ UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Ran electrochemical experiments on carbon steel samples in order to measure corrosion and pitting rates of the sample when immersed in different solutions. Also wrote Fortran scripts to simulate corrosion experiments given different input parameters.


## Education
### UCLA

### International Baccalaureate
International High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/julien-collins

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Last updated: 2026-03-29