About HookBang VR Development company in Austin, United States
We are a group of talented and passionate professionals who push each other every day so that together we can push the limits of technology. Built around a culture of creativity respect and accountability we are fueled by tough problems fun board games and lots of coffee!
In 1862 Victor Hugo was on vacation when his novel Les Miserables considered one of the greatest works of the 19th century was published. To query the reaction to his work he telegraphed his publisher with one character: ’?’. The response equally short was simply ’!’.
Our name captures the crux of who we are and what we love: tackling hard problems and developing elegant solutions. Derived from programmer speak for ’?’ amp; ’!’ HookBang was born reminding us daily of why we do what we do.
Founded in 2012 HookBang was created to bring together an incredible team of experienced developers with one common goal: to solve difficult software problems we care about with people we trust and respect.
Weve built a culture that pushes us to be our best encourages a healthy work/life balance and cultivates true accountability. This frees us to be efficient force multipliers allowing us a velocity and agility most developers envy.
In 1862 Victor Hugo was on vacation when his novel Les Miserables considered one of the greatest works of the 19th century was published. To query the reaction to his work he telegraphed his publisher with one character: ’?’. The response equally short was simply ’!’.
Our name captures the crux of who we are and what we love: tackling hard problems and developing elegant solutions. Derived from programmer speak for ’?’ amp; ’!’ HookBang was born reminding us daily of why we do what we do.
Founded in 2012 HookBang was created to bring together an incredible team of experienced developers with one common goal: to solve difficult software problems we care about with people we trust and respect.
Weve built a culture that pushes us to be our best encourages a healthy work/life balance and cultivates true accountability. This frees us to be efficient force multipliers allowing us a velocity and agility most developers envy.
Our incredible and well-rounded team of 40+ talented engineers artists designers etc. have decades of experience working at the forefront of technology. HookBang brings together industry experts in machine vision AR VR simulation and enterprise solutions to constantly think of innovative ways to change the world with machine vision and help solve our clients tough problems.
Founder amp; CEO
Frank is a seasoned software engineer and executive with a 25+ year track record of building products teams and companies from the ground up. Hes held senior or executive positions with Electronic Arts Atari 3DO Multimedia Games and Intific (now Cubic). Hes been the General Manager of several development studios the most recent of which grew to 80 employees was voted one of Austins Top Workplaces and was sold to Cubic in early 2014. Frank earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science from Union College Schenectady NY.
VP of Professional Services
Vu has over 22 years of experience in software development spanning a wide variety of roles including quality assurance design project/program management business development and business operations. Vu has worked in multiple industries including video games large enterprise applications mobile/web development Ramp;D and military simulations. Vu is a PMP and certified Scrum master with experience managing projects with team sizes of over 60+ and budgets over $30+ million.
Head of Business Relations
Ayush earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin. He has a decade of experience in the startup world and by combining his finance background with his technical knowledge he has an acute ability to understand a clients needs and provide a solution with the team at HookBang. At disruptED Ayush was the Director of Product Development and helped the company design and develop multiple Augmented Reality books managed multiple developer teams while also nurturing a relationship with large partners such as Bose.
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