Stefan Arisona
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Esri R&D Center Zurich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolStefan Arisona is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Zurich with 13+ years of experience at the intersection of GIS, AEC, computer graphics and XR, currently leading the XR team at Esri R&D Center Zurich. He blends deep academic roots—a PhD from the University of Zurich and postdoctoral work at ETH Zurich and UCSB—with hands-on software architecture and systems engineering across research labs, academia, and industry. As a co‑founding principal investigator of ETH’s Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore he pioneered visualization and simulation methods for urban design, bringing research-grade visualization into production contexts. His background in electrical engineering, music theory and procedural art informs a multidisciplinary approach to pixels, bits and samples, enabling creative technical solutions for spatial problems. Known for bridging rigorous research and practical product delivery, he continuously explores how XR and procedural techniques can reshape how cities and built environments are modeled and experienced.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, Mathematics, Music Theory, PhD, Computer Science, Mathematics, Music Theory at University of ZurichM. Sc., Electrical Engineering, M. Sc., Electrical Engineering at ETH ZurichM. Sc., Computer Science, M. Sc., Computer Science at Uppsala University
English, German, French, Swedish, Indonesian
Github Skills (65)
unreal-engine-410
unreal10
openxr10
encoder10
architecture10
arcgis10
unreal-engine-510
alembic10
decoder10
game-engine9
sdk9
api9
procedural9
lwjgl9
3d9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arisona/ether-gl
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:3 PRs, 116 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
arisona/mpm
May 2013 - Apr 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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