# Mo Ben-Zacharia

> XR developer with a passion for new technology.

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mobenzacharia

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Transfr
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States
Worked on building the Unity SDK for Transfr's VR Training Solutions.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Involved in development of the Mesh for Teams product for VR/Web/PC (Unity).

### Software Engineer @ Spatial
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
- Involved in software engineering, design, and product discussions for our main product, Spatial Meetings (Unity).
    - Integrated cutting-edge Azure-based technologies: Azure Spatial Anchors and Azure Remote Rendering.
    - Optimized our network bandwidth usage by over 90% via compression of 3D transform data.

- Led development on a new product, Tele, an iOS-only AR application for calling friends (Unity).
    - Setup Tele to be built through Unity as a library and integrated with a react-native layer to create more responsive
UI and integrate with native OS features.
    - Built an in-app photorealistic avatar generation process.
    - Customized blendshapes in Cinema4D to provide more realistic facial expressions, and processing blendshape
input from ARKit to stabilize facial expression.
    - Developed dual front-facing and rear-facing tracking modes, unifying the coordinate systems to provide a
consistent experience when switching between two camera modes.

### Industry Teaching Assistant @ Cornell Tech
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York City Metropolitan Area
- Designed and developed two Unity projects for students to use as a base for their VR assignments.
- Provided technical guidance for students’ term projects, most of which were built on ARKit & ARCore.

### Director of Engineering @ Oblix
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Led three engineers and a designer to conceptualize, prototype, and release a Unity-based multiplayer virtual reality game (Steam page linked).
- Created an MVC-based app architecture and developed most of our game and view logic, including Photon integration, to support a multiplayer experience.

### Co-Founder & CTO @ The Body VR
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
Founded The Body VR, a startup focused on creating educational virtual reality experiences for healthcare.
- Solely developed The Body VR: Journey Inside a Cell, an immersive educational experience.
- Accumulated 500,000 downloads to date with a 95% positive rating on Steam.
- Created The Body VR: Anatomy Viewer, a tool used to view MRI & CT scans via volumetric rendering.

### Unity VR Developer @ Samsung Accelerator
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
- Led front-end development for VRB’s 360° photo customization app, VRB Foto, a Unity-based Gear VR experience.

### Unity VR Developer @ YouVisit
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
- Built a mobile Unity-based app that brought the YouVisit virtual tour platform into VR.
- Built a custom 360° video projection to better utilize the available bandwidth on VR devices.
- Wrote a custom FFMPEG filter in C++ to convert from equirectangular projection to our custom projection. (Patent linked)

### Lead VR Developer @ Bravo Media, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Lead development of various Virtual Reality applications using Unity3D and Unreal Engine 4, targeting the GearVR and Oculus Rift DK2 devices.

Focused on maintaining a high frame rate without sacrificing graphic fidelity.


## Education
### Computer Science
Stony Brook University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mo-ben-zacharia-74aa04a4

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Last updated: 2026-03-22