Hassan Uriostegui is an award winning visual artist and Software Architect. 

Intelligence might be appreciated as the most primitive form of life. As such, the Universe won't be just a pathway full of intelligent life, but an absolute reflection of human awareness.

– Hassan Uriostegui

Maxwell Design. VP Product & Engineering 2020 -Present

Hassan developed the LUX Framework, the first Universal Design System for iOS and macOS. Launched the Maxwell SDK and positioned it to the top 10 developer tools. Presented at WWDC Labs and approved for the Apple Silicon early access program

InVision.

Lead Mobile Developer 2018 -2019

Hassan Implemented real-time previews for Studio and iOS. Integrated Freehand editor into iOS. Refactored legacy objective-C code into modular frameworks.

FlyrTV.

CTO & Co-founder. 2014 -2018.

Hassan was instrumental in raising $6M+ and assembled a team of 30 wonderful professionals that brought to life more than 10,000 HD video templates empowering thousands of happy customers. Acquired in 2018. In an exclusive partnership, FlyrTV was the first company to access the content sharing API when released by Snapchat.

Community.

iOS App Architect. 2019 -2020.

Hassan Implemented an abstract CS Ph.D. paper by Princeton University into a Swift library. Architected and launched a scalable iOS 13 reactive application. In 6 months, onboarded 5 engineers and conformed the iOS team. Technology and product broadly documented and delivered on time

Ultrakam. Indie Founder. 2013 -2014.

Hassan published the first application that empowered any mobile device to record at film resolution (2k). Overpassed Apple implementation by creating custom recording configurations. The live preview feature was highlighted at WWDC 2014 as an example of good design.

Viddy. 2012 -2013.

Director of Video Engineering.

Hassan architected a State of the art iOS + Android VFX rendering engine. Iterated on complex video editing features that brought to life the most advanced video editor in a time when Instagram was a photos only app. At peak engagement, the platform served 40M+ users.

Tron Legacy Disney.

Augmented Reality Engine. 2010

Augmented reality was all the hype a decade ago despite requiring inconvenient “tracking markers” to work. Until just recently, mobile devices couldn’t perform complex computer vision operations in real-time, and to circumvent these limitations in 2010, Hassan developed a high performance Augmented Reality Engine to promote a marketing experience for the Tron Legacy movie.

Onelapse.

Live Photos Before Apple. 2013

Following Ultrakam’s success, Hassan envisioned a new type of media object that would blend the high-resolution video with the experience of taking photos. “Taking photos from videos” as He described it, would allow the user to choose that perfect moment just after capturing the event. This concept was 2 years later productized by Apple as “Live Photos” and released with the iPhone 6s in 2015

Tron Legacy Disney. Augmented Reality Engine. 2010

Augmented reality was all the hype a decade ago despite requiring inconvenient “tracking markers” to work. Until just recently, mobile devices couldn’t perform complex computer vision operations in real time, and to circumvent these limitations in 2010, Hassan developed a high performance Augmented Reality Engine to promote a marketing experience for the Tron Legacy movie.

Krommy.

Snap Filters before Snapchat. 2011

After releasing Kromath, the first real time Green Screen compositing application for iOS, Hassan furthered the research into computer vision and developed an early concept of an entertainment app resembling Snapchat filter yet almost a decade ahead.

Onelapse.

Live Photos Before Apple. 2013

Following Ultrakam’s success, Hassan envisioned a new type of media object that would blend the high-resolution video with the experience of taking photos. “Taking photos from videos” as He described it, would allow the user to choose that perfect moment just after capturing the event. This concept was 2 years later productized by Apple as “Live Photos” and released with the iPhone 6s in 2015

Cinekolor.

High End Color Correction

Before Adobe. 2014

Hassan developed Cinekolor after being challenged by their VFX peers to create an application that would be able to apply professional 3-stage color correction and then export the style (3D LUT) in a format compatible with High-End film production software. The application was launched and featured all over the world in 2014.

Renderfarm X. Patent Pending Video Rendering Platform. 2018

When faced with the challenge of delegating the slow rendering process of video effects from the iPhone application into the FlyrTV servers, Hassan envisioned a revolutionary hardware and software architecture that allowed to reuse the same rendering engine powering the iOS application but provide a scalable backend-side rendering solution. The company was acquired in 2018.

Maxwell Lux. The First Universal Design System for iOS and macOS. 2020

Apple reinvented the game in 2020, with a first-class Reactive Development framework, Hassan developed the first Universal Design System that allows to reuse and easily restyle components between iOS and macOS taking full advantage of SwiftUI and Combine. The tech was presented at WWDC20 Labs and approved for the early access program for the coming Apple Silicon tech.

A Selection of Hassan's favorite projects

Hassan's favorite light tricks

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