PETER HOWELL

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Technical program & product leader — developer platforms, engines, and games.

12+ years building early-generation platforms across Wearables, AI, XR, and game streaming. Most recently, 5 years on 3P Ecosystem at Meta across Wearables, AI & Quest. Now building AI agents and orchestration systems.

DISCIPLINES Product Management Technical Program Management Developer Relations

Previously

01 Experience / 2011 — present

· Developer Strategy — 3P Ecosystem 2021 — 2026

Wearables, Quest & AI

›Launched the Wearables Developer Center — including the Device Access Toolkit and the Ray-Ban Display Web Apps Developer Preview — the platform and tooling third-party developers build on for Meta's Wearables. Coordinated Device Access Toolkit launch partners, and built Web Apps with partners on the Ray-Ban Display Developer Preview.

Developer Tools for Meta Ray-Ban Display

›Automated production workflows with Manus AI agents and skills including onboarding, integration, QA & launch management. Replaced manual coordination with self-running systems.

Manus Production Lifecycle Agent and Skills — Developer Onboarding, Integration, QA, Launch Management.

›Created a Wearables production CRM and MCP server to surface ecosystem release timeline and dependencies to leadership and cross-functional agents.

Wearables Ecosystem Release Pipeline — Manus: CRM Signals → MCP Server → Timeline & Dependencies → Leadership + Cross-Functional Agents.

›Co-designed integration architecture, delivery plans, and developer workflows for a newly formed team across Wearables and Quest (Unity, Unreal, and Spatial SDK with Jetpack Compose). Milestone, launch, and SDK standards adopted across the partner ecosystem.
› Coordinated technical evaluation, development, QA, and launch for 30+ third-party titles across the Quest Pro, Quest 3, and Ray-Ban Display launches and post-launch — including the Microsoft Windows App, Adobe Substance 3D, Spotify, Apple Music, and Autodesk Workshop XR — bridging partner engineering and internal product teams.

›Ran roadmaps and schedules across five partner verticals — Productivity, Creator Tools, Music, Fitness, and Learning — surfacing health, risk, and progress to engineering leads and execs.

Stack Unity Unreal Meta Horizon Engine Meta Spatial SDK Manus MCP

· Technical Project Manager 2019 — 2021

Glasses-free 3D display developer platform, SDK and stores for mobile devices including Red Hydrogen One and Lume Pad.

Stack Unity Unreal

· Technical Product Manager 2018 — 2019

Developer platform and game-engine SDKs (Unity & Unreal) for real-world prizes based off in-game challenges.

Stack Unity Unreal

· Senior Product Manager 2013 — 2018

On-demand, hardware-free gameplay to connected TVs, mobile, and web.

›Product owner for Smart TV and mobile apps, desktop and mobile web, including the cloud-gaming controller for GameFly Streaming Smart TV apps.
›Created GameFly's developer platform for studio build submissions — the pipeline games shipped through to the cloud-streaming service.

GameFly Streaming — 10-foot Games Catalog UI on Smart TV

GameFly cloud-gaming virtual controller overlay

· Unity Developer 2014 — 2018

Shipped “Lucifer’s Mask” — an Oculus Go launch title. Concurrent with GameFly.

›Gameplay, real-time rendering, and audio in Unity + C#.
›Solo through build, submission, and Oculus store launch.
›Speaker, Oculus Connect 5 (2018) — “Getting Eyeballs on Your Game.”

Oculus Connect 5: Getting Eyeballs on Your Game

Stack Unity

· Community Manager — Call of Duty Elite 2011 — 2013

Online game service for a multi-million-player community.

02 Education

Loyola Marymount University

B.A. English — Writing

’07

Unity

Certified Developer

Credential

03 Extended Works

Hands-on projects across AI and prototyping.

Home Center dashboard — family hub with schedule, weather, and AI assistant.

Home Center ● building github.com/phdev/home-center

Open source family assistant that proactively turns on your TV using HDMI-CEC and surfaces timely family needs that your OpenClaw can act upon. Runs on Raspberry Pi with mic array.

›On-device voice pipeline. Custom wake-word detection.
›Tiered local-first model router: edge → local → cloud. Most queries never leave the house.
›Two OpenClaw agents: developer (system tasks) and family (complex queries, household coordination).

self-hosted AI / voice edge inference OpenClaw

Quake II on Meta Ray-Ban Display ● open source github.com/phdev/glquake2-rayban-display

A GLQuake II port to Ray-Ban Display — a study in AI-assisted development for open-source software on new form factors.

›Codex modified open-source C engine directly — building input, movement, aiming, gestures, and comfort defaults around how Ray-Ban Display + Neural Band actually work, not a pretend keyboard/controller.
›C engine compiled to WebAssembly to run smoothly in-browser on glasses.
›Brightness, contrast, and gamma tuned at the rendering layer for legibility on glasses.
›Uses smaller, dependency-aware chunks to download reliably and progressively on a bandwidth-constrained device where monolithic downloads are fragile.

AI-assisted dev WASM Ray-Ban Display open source

Prototype work at Meta ● shipped · internal

Fast, AI-built prototypes used to make real product decisions inside Meta.

›Unified text-input prototype for Quest and Ray-Ban Display to enable short-form Productivity use cases with less fatigue. Cross-platform engine.
›News Reader app for Meta Ray-Ban Display.

AI prototyping Wearables Quest

Contact

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GITHUB

github.com/phdev