Mariano Merchante
Senior Software Engineer, AR VR Graphics at Apple
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMariano Merchante is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in AR/VR graphics with 12 years of experience building performant, visually compelling interactive experiences from game engines to consumer AR platforms. Based in Los Angeles, he has advanced graphics systems at Apple since 2019 after honing creative and technical pipelines at Framestore and indie game studio Dedalord. He blends engineering precision with an artist’s sensibility—aptly summarized on GitHub as lerp(engineer, artist, .375)—and has taught computer graphics and game development at the university level. Mariano’s work emphasizes real-time performance and aesthetic fidelity, and he brings a rare mix of production-film, academic, and game development perspectives to immersive graphics challenges.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Colegio Colinas del NorteSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos AiresColegio Menor San Francisco de QuitoMaster's degree, Computer Graphics and Game Technology, Master's degree, Computer Graphics and Game Technology at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
node-api9
procedural-generation9
maya9
api8
flocking8
glsl8
threejs8
animation7
boids7
webgl7
noise6
javascript6
animated5
rasterizer4
simulation4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mmerchante/instanceAlongCurve
Dec 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:107 commits, 4 PRs, 97 pushes in 2 years 1 month
apimayanode-apiinstancingcurves
mmerchante/organic-mesh-growth
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:47 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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