Staff technical program leadership · AI · XR · Platforms

I turn technically complex work into programs teams can ship.

I lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives at the point where emerging technology, engineering execution, and operating systems meet. Currently embedded as a TPM in Google’s XR organization through Magic Leap.

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Selected scale across the career

concurrent workstreamsGoogle XR

programs managed concurrentlyML Horizons

1,000+

demos across 50+ eventsMagic Leap demo program

10 yrs

Manager to DirectorZerofractal

Selected proof

Programs, products, and operating systems.

A small set of examples that show how I work across organizational scale and hands-on technical depth.

AI + XR · Program leadership

Google XR programs

Embedded as a Technical Program Manager within Google’s XR organization through Magic Leap’s strategic partnership.

Manage 10 concurrent workstreams across 20+ engineers, connecting engineering, design, product, and release teams.
Drove Gemini-powered AI features for Android XR featured at Google I/O 2026; two additional XR app workstreams shipped to Google Play.
TPM for an internal platform serving multiple Google product organizations.

Explore Android XR

What it demonstrates

Program architecture for emerging technology at organizational scale.

Agentic AI · Hands-on builder

Marcus Nexus + Scrapius

Building AI products directly to keep technical judgment grounded in how modern agent systems actually behave.

Designed a multi-agent platform with persistent context and domain-scoped CEO, CTO, and CMO agents.
Built Scrapius, a live SaaS research product that routes between models based on task depth and user choice.
Work hands-on with Anthropic and OpenAI APIs, Claude Code, Cursor, Next.js, agent orchestration, and model routing.

Marcus Nexus Scrapius Scrapius walkthrough · 3 min

What it demonstrates

The program leader’s systems view, backed by builder-level fluency.

Developer platform · Release systems

A release system teams could trust

Inherited an AR product after its first public launch with no repeatable path to the next release.

Reworked the branching model so every workflow state mapped to a real, testable build.
Created explicit gates and ownership across peer review, design QA, verification, platform QA, and release authority.
Separated planning, engineering, and design workflows while preserving their dependencies.

Watch Magic Leap Assist

What it demonstrates

Established and sustained a quarterly release cadence for four consecutive quarters.

XR platform · Developer experience

ML Spectator

Helped turn complex spatial capture technology into a product external developers could integrate and operate.

Shipped a Unity package through MLHUB and npm, paired with iOS and Android companion applications.
Coordinated a system spanning real-time rendering, mobile tracking, networking, video encoding, and compositing.
Treated breaking changes, discoverability, integration paths, and supportability as product-level program risks.

Watch ML Spectator demo

What it demonstrates

Developer-platform thinking across hardware, mobile, networking, and real-time 3D.

Interactive technology · Operating leadership

A decade from hands-on production to operating leadership

Progressed from Manager to Director of Interactive at Zerofractal, leading multidisciplinary delivery across web applications, interactive installations, 3D experiences, and emerging technology.

Managed teams of 6–10 developers and designers delivering work for clients including CONCACAF, Netflix, and COTY.
Delivered CONCACAF’s cloud-based media accreditation platform, used by hundreds of international journalists at Copa América 2016.
Advised executive leadership on emerging technology, including VR for COTY, while owning six-figure project scoping, forecasting, and P&L.

What it demonstrates

The career foundation: technical range translated into team leadership, commercial ownership, and repeatable delivery.

Creative technology archive

Before emerging technology had a playbook, I helped make one.

Selected earlier work that connects technical program leadership with hands-on production across XR, real-time 3D, and interactive experiences.

Magic Leap astronaut installation outside the LeapCon venue

XR program delivery

LeapCon 2018

Managed demo production for 23 partners, including ILMxLAB, Rovio, Insomniac, and Weta Workshop, while coordinating 25 people and 120 devices across Magic Leap’s first developer conference.

5,000+ successful demos
3,000+ developer signups

Early augmented reality

Hotels.com Virtual Vacay

Led client delivery and a five-person art team for an AR tour across 10 cities, then learned ActionScript 3.0 to help build the interactive experience.

+36% bookings
+26% traffic · +32% loyalty signups

Watch the Virtual Vacay campaign

AR product experience

Michael Kors Access

Led asset production and application delivery for an AR watch try-on, programming the experience in C# and Unity and preparing enterprise iOS distribution.

Retail rollout across Latin America
Product, 3D, code, and distribution

How I operate

Make the system visible. Put decisions where they belong.

Find the real constraint

The visible problem is often tracking. The actual problem may be architecture, ownership, or the path to production.

Turn ambiguity into a system

Define decision points, dependencies, risks, and success measures so teams can move without waiting for constant intervention.

Keep authority with the experts

Program structure should clarify technical decisions, not take them away from the engineers and leaders accountable for the work.

Let’s talk

Building something technically ambitious?

I’m interested in Staff and Principal-level technical program leadership across AI, platforms, XR, and physical-world systems.

alexander.shabetayev@gmail.com