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Caitlin Kalinowski is an American product designer and mechanical engineer. She is the head of product design engineering at virtual reality technology company Oculus VR.
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Personal life
Caitlin Kalinowski grew up in New Hampshire. She moved to the west coast, and began attending Stanford University to study product design. Her parents were both professors. She currently lives with her wife in San Francisco, California.
Kalinowski is involved with various women’s and lesbian’s technology groups focused on increasing awareness and resources for women in the technology fields. She is on the board of wogrammer, a project focused on sharing interviews of women engineers, and the advisory board of Lesbians Who Tech.
Career
After three years at Stanford University, Kalinowski left to begin working at OQO. She later left OQO for Apple, where she worked as a technical lead on the design of laptops in the MacBook product line. While continuing to work half-time at Apple, she returned to Stanford and received her bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. She left Apple to work at Facebook, where she worked on the Facebook Bluetooth Beacon project. After Facebook acquired Oculus VR, Kalinowski joined the company as the head of product design. She leads the mechanical product design team, where she works on the Oculus Rift and the other virtual reality products developed by the company.