Josh Faust
Generalist programmer and technical leader — AR/3D & robotics 🤖
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Portland, Oregon
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Joined December 2024
Summary
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 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 significant parts of the roscpp C++ client library and started rviz from scratch, including building features such as the point-selection tool and TF display. ros+2
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, 2009Overview of the Robot Operating System (ROS); co-authored paper describing ROS design, architecture, and tools.
A Video Game-Based Mobile Robot Simulation Environment 📄
January 1, 2007Paper 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).
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.
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
PMPavlos Morossaid they would trust
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to lead the engineering on a technically challenging project.Nov 3, 2025
Aug 10, 2025
AEAndrew Edwardssaid
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has demonstrated strong entrepreneurial skills in founding a company.Jul 14, 2025
AEAndrew Edwardssaid they've seen
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
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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