Alex Kipman


Alex Kipman is the lead developer of the Microsoft Hololens and helped develop the Xbox Kinect. He was born in 1979, and grew up in Natal, Brazil.

Biography

Kipman was born in 1979 and grew up in Natal. He graduated RIT University in 2001 with a degree in software engineering and joined Microsoft that same year, starting development on Microsoft's integrated development environment Visual Studio. Starting 2005, he helped in the development of Microsoft Windows, until joining the Xbox department in 2008. His role at Microsoft has led to him being known as the "Technical Fellow." Kipman has made an analogy of his work to artwork, saying that "Software is the only art form in existence that is not bound by the confines of physics."