Ricardo Garcia-rosas
XR Developer at Monash University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolRicardo Garcia-rosas is an XR developer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience at the intersection of robotics, virtual reality, and rehabilitation technologies. As co-founder and CEO of Virtetic he is commercialising game-based VR interventions to improve limb-loss recovery, building on his Ph.D. work in online personalisation of human-prosthetic interfaces and a VR training platform developed in Unity/C#. Based in Melbourne, he combines hands-on robotics and control systems expertise—from industrial robot commissioning to prosthetics algorithms—with academic roles as an Honorary Research Fellow and teaching experience across undergraduate and graduate courses. Ricardo’s career blends research-to-market translation, clinical trial design and ethics approval, and practical product engineering, showing an uncommon ability to navigate both lab research and real-world industrial deployments.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Mechatronics, Bachelor, Mechatronics at Tecnológico de MonterreyRobotics and Automation, Robotics and Automation at University of WollongongThe University of MelbourneJapanese Language and Culture, Japanese Language and Culture at Ritsumeikan University
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (8)
hand-tracking10
augmented-reality7
virtual-reality7
openvr3
robotics3
unity3d3
ros3
steamvr2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Rigaro/VRProEP
Oct 2018 - Dec 2020
Platform for evaluating and customizing prosthetic devices using virtual reality.
Contributions:2 releases, 228 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 2 months
realityvirtual-realityhand-trackingaugmented-realityunity
Rigaro/Robotics2015S2
Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 76 pushes, 23 branches in 4 months
unimelbroboticsros
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