Rui Pereira
Freelance Creative Technology And Spatial Computing Lead
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Pereira is a freelance Creative Technology and Spatial Computing Lead with 13 years of experience designing and building immersive AR/XR experiences for brands, cultural institutions and research labs. He combines hands-on prototyping and technical leadership—having led systems design, dev teams and production cycles—with a strategic knack for demystifying emerging tech for stakeholders and clients. Rui has driven award-winning projects (including Core77 and Anthem-recognized AR work for USHMM and Microsoft Arts & Culture) and prototyped research-driven experiences at Meta Reality Labs and Google. As an adjunct faculty at NYU’s ITP and curriculum lead for AR programs, he blends teaching with practice to iterate novel interactions and multimodal, natural user interfaces. An active openFrameworks contributor, he’s comfortable shipping C++ graphics examples as well as three.js/GSAP web animations to communicate complex systems. Based in New York, he’s equally at home sketching concepts, running workshops, or delivering polished demos for C-level audiences.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Studies Human Engineering and Design for Information Systems / Human-Computer Interaction, Graduate Studies Human Engineering and Design for Information Systems / Human-Computer Interaction at University of LisbonInteractive Telecommunications Program MPS creative technology arts and design, Interactive Telecommunications Program MPS creative technology arts and design at New York UniversityBachelor's degree Multimedia Design and Communication, Bachelor's degree Multimedia Design and Communication at Universidade de Aveiro
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (5)
oop10
openframeworks10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
user-interface8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openframeworks/ofBook
Mar 2014 - Jul 2015
openFrameworks community book
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 5 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Rui primarily contributed to the `openframeworks/ofbook` repository by adding and updating examples, particularly focusing on object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts within the context of openFrameworks. These examples involved the creation and manipulation of graphical elements using C++, demonstrating the user's proficiency in both the language and the openFrameworks library. Additionally, the user made code changes in response to project updates, ensuring the examples aligned with the latest version of the project.
beameropenframeworkstypesetting
ruxrux/MagicWindowsMixedUpRealities-s17
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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