Caitlin Kalinowski leads the AR Hardware team for Reality Labs at Meta. Previously, she led VR Hardware, the division responsible for the Meta Quest 2 and Touch controllers, and the Oculus Rift, Go and Rift S. Before working at Oculus, Caitlin was a technical lead at Apple on the Mac Pro and MacBook Air products and was part of the original unibody MacBook Pro teams. Caitlin received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2007.

Caitlin is passionate about increasing the number of women and other underrepresented minorities in the fields of technology and design. She believes the next generation of products must be designed and engineered by people with different backgrounds and experiences to create the best possible product.

Caitlin is on the Board of Axon, as well as on the strategic board of Lesbians Who Tech, the largest women’s tech conference in California and the largest LGBTQ professional network in the world.