Summary
Shimpei Suganuma is an AR design engineer based in Tokyo with 11 years blending R&D engineering and creative technical direction across advertising and freelance work. He led prototype-to-production AR/AI/VR projects at a major ad agency—most notably the Pixel 3 AR launch—then transitioned to freelance, producing numerous Instagram AR filters for brands, artists, and fashion labels. Comfortable across TouchDesigner, Spark AR, Max/MSP and openFrameworks, he pairs concept-driven ideation and client-facing requirements work with hands-on implementation. Notably, he brings the perspective of someone who introduced cutting-edge interactive tech into traditional OOH advertising long before it was commonplace.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Hosei University