Benjamin Shyong
Founder, N+1 Labs · ex-Meta ex-Apple
Iterate hardware in simulation, not on the line
Hardware Operations
Consumer AR Glasses Manufacturing
Staff Technical Program Manager for Meta's Ray-Ban Display AR glasses. Owned manufacturing from prototype through mass production for a first-generation consumer AR product: factory readiness, yield, throughput, and build triage across design, engineering, and supply chain.
Operations Program Manager & Product Quality
Operations Program Manager for iPad Pro, prototype to mass production. Apple Special Projects to stand up a new manufacturer and automation line for Health Tech, then ran ops and quality for iPhone and AirTag.
Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Factory Operations
Manufacturing Engineer to Global Supply Manager to Operations Planning Team Lead for the Torreon, Mexico, subsidiary (remote), then an APAC strategic assignment in Shanghai directing an ERP rollout across five China plants.
Operator
- 10 years Consumer Hardware NPI at Apple + Meta
- 9 factory cities: China, Vietnam, Taiwan
- xFN convergence: ME, EE, SW, supply chain, ops
Builder
- 3× hackathon 1st place + NVIDIA sponsor prize + 1× top 6 finalist
- Full-stack AI builds: A2A, MCP, LoRA fine-tunes, vLLM
- Five-property STR brand on production software I write
Builds
all projects →
Hackathon build, October 2026, that started N+1 Labs. Nemotron agents redesign a simulated warehouse floor; a frozen simulator decides what ships. Won NVIDIA Best Use of Nemotron.
Agents are multiplying faster than anyone can supervise them. AgentTalkie gives the fleet one voice workspace for direction, approval, execution, and receipts.
Your desk, rehearsed by robots before hardware. A phone video becomes a physics twin, Gemini 4 Argon critiques each failed hand-over, and MuJoCo decides what passes.
Agentic commerce intelligence. AI agents are already window shopping your store, and they skip what they can't confirm. Injester shows merchants what the agents miss, then retests after the fix.
Prompt-to-product workspace for customizing physical objects without learning CAD. AI proposes geometry; independent checks bind evidence and approval to the exact revision.
Multiplayer MCP-native agent that replaces the back office for short-term rental operations. Multiple AI clients share one durable backend.
Hackathon wins
all hackathons →Factory N+1
sponsor prizeWon NVIDIA Best Use of Nemotron with Factory N+1, the hackathon build that started N+1 Labs: Nemotron agents redesign a fulfillment floor and a frozen simulator decides what ships. 82% lower penalty, 0 damaged, about 4 cents.
Red Thread
first placeFirst place. Built Red Thread, a hospitality concierge concept rooted in Rosewood's "Sense of Place" thesis.
LoopOS
top 6 finalistTop 6 finalist. Built LoopOS, a multiplayer MCP-native agent that replaces the back office for short-term rental operations.
Data-OnCall
first placeFirst place. 4-agent incident response team for data quality bugs, fine-tuned Llama 3.1 + LoRA for NL→GraphQL, end-to-end in 54.8s at ~2¢/run.
About
One of my favorite moments in life is meeting someone chasing the purpose they were made for. Someone living so deep inside their ikigai. That rare alignment of love, mastery, contribution, and craft. You feel it within seconds. The air around them sings.