About

Sanket Dongre is a Lead Engineer (Augmented/Virtual Reality) at John Deere with over 10 years of relevant experience. He is a continuous learner, researcher, and self-taught programmer with core skills in 3D graphics, learning development, XR product/applications development, strategy, design thinking, coding (game development and web development basics), visualization, UI/UX design, and CAD. Sanket has expertise in using tools and software such as Unity 3D, Unreal, Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher, Figma, Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, Premiere Pro, Cyberlink Suite, and MS Office Suite. He is currently exploring and learning product management, shader development (Unity), maths for real-time rendering and interaction physics, machine learning, synthetic data generation, native mobile, and full-stack web development. Sanket has worked with companies such as Dassault and Vconstruct in the past, where he built and managed communities of engineering students and developed custom VR/AR solutions for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction using CAD/BIM data from Revit/Sketchup/3dsMax. Sanket holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Product and Tool Design from the Maharashtra Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Shri Sant Gajanan Maharaj College of Engineering. He has also completed various certifications and nanodegrees in Product Management, Full Stack Engineering, and Virtual Reality Development from Udacity and Free Code Camp. Sanket's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Web Designer, NodeJS, Product Manager, ML, Research Scientist, Mobile, UI, and Python. He is currently leading augmented reality-related projects in the Advanced Visualization team at John Deere, where he is developing an eye-tracking solution using Unity for UX researchers, creating a mixed reality capture process solution, and researching Metaverse strategy at the organization level.