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Josh Faust

Josh Faust

Generalist programmer and technical leader | AI engineering, AR/3D, & robotics

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Portland, Oregon
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Joined December 2024
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Summary

Full stack and backend AI engineer at Happenstance 🍀, working on AI and platform technologies. linkedin+1
Product and platform builder in AR/3D: Josh co-founded Torch 3D (a no-code AR/3D authoring platform), led its technical direction as CTO, and joined Fyusion as a Principal Architect after Torch's acquisition. His recent work centers on making 3D/AR content creation and e-commerce/automotive 3D experiences more accessible. 🚀 webflow+2
Robotics and systems engineer focused on core ROS tooling: Josh co-authored the ICRA 2009 ROS paper and contributed substantial parts of the roscpp C++ client library; he started rviz from scratch, helping shape how robots visualize and share sensor data. 🤖 ros+3
Broad systems and tooling background spanning games, SDKs, and platform engineering: earlier work includes tools programming in game studios, SDK engineering at Magic Leap, and many public repositories indicating strong systems, C++/Qt, and tooling skills. ⚙️ github+2

Work

Education

Projects

Writing

ROS: an open-source Robot Operating System 📄

January 1, 2009

Overview of the Robot Operating System (ROS); co-authored paper describing ROS design, architecture, and tools.

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A Video Game-Based Mobile Robot Simulation Environment 📄

January 1, 2007

Paper describing a robot simulation environment built from video-game technologies, demonstrating realistic physics, rendering, and distributed simulation for multi-robot experiments (authored by J. Faust and collaborators).

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Selected patents (as inventor) 🧾

Inventor on multiple patents related to multi-view capture, AR/3D imaging, and interactive digital media developed with Fyusion and collaborators; see linked patent listings for details.

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Hobbies

⛷️ Skiing — Enjoy carving snowy slopes and winter adventure

🥾 Hiking — Exploring trails and nature on foot

🧗 Climbing — Scaling rocks and pushing limits

🎲 Board games — Strategic and fun tabletop play

🎮 Video games — Immersive gaming across genres

Notes

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would be one of their first picks as a software engineer.

Nov 28, 2025

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played a pivotal role as a co-founder or core team member in building Happenstance AI.

Nov 26, 2025

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consistently impresses them with their frontend engineering skills and depth of experience in active, hands-on roles.

Nov 24, 2025

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's impact on Happenstance AI's core team really impressed them.

Nov 19, 2025

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is one of the most effective Solutions Architects they've worked with.

Nov 18, 2025

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to design the architecture for a critical project.

Nov 18, 2025

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is one of the most talented software developers they've worked with.

Nov 17, 2025

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to lead engineering on an important software project.

Nov 14, 2025

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consistently deliver high-quality software solutions.

Nov 13, 2025

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consistently deliver high-quality software solutions.

Nov 12, 2025

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has made a noticeable positive impact on engineering teams they've worked with.

Nov 7, 2025

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JFJosh Faust
to lead the engineering on a technically challenging project.

Nov 3, 2025

ISIshan Shahsaid
JFJosh Faust
is one of the most talented software engineers they've worked with.

Aug 10, 2025

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has demonstrated strong entrepreneurial skills in founding a company.

Jul 14, 2025

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JFJosh Faust
play a make-or-break role in shipping core AI infrastructure at an early-stage company.

Jul 2, 2025

ISIshan Shahsaid that if they were starting a new AI infra company, they would want
JFJosh Faust
as a founding engineer.

Jul 2, 2025

ATAlex Teichmansaid they've seen
JFJosh Faust
play a make-or-break role in shipping core AI infrastructure at an early-stage company.

Jun 29, 2025