Surya Buchwald
Software Engineer at VRChat Inc
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSurya Buchwald is a creative software engineer in Portland with over a decade of hands-on experience building interactive, playful experiences across Unity, Node.js, TouchDesigner and openFrameworks. Currently at VRChat, he helps shape a new virtual universe while bringing a background in live performance, VJing for acts like Deadmau5 and festival-scale installations to product-focused engineering. He has led R&D and innovation teams, shipped immersive retail and event experiences for clients such as Nike and Toyota, and built alternative-input interactions using Kinect, Leap Motion and bespoke controllers. Comfortable spanning rapid prototyping to production, Surya blends cinematic sensibilities from his cinema studies with deep technical craft to make interfaces that invite exploration and play.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Cinema, Associate's degree, Cinema at Los Angeles City College
Github Skills (139)
simulator10
wave10
weechat10
quest10
voiceover10
openframeworks10
virtual-webcam10
scene10
unity3d10
spatial-audio10
simulation10
assembly10
neural-style-transfer10
avatar9
virtual-camera9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
vrchat-community/osc
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Files and Info on using OSC to communicate with VRChat
Contributions:31 commits, 12 PRs, 25 pushes in 9 months
weechatcommunicateopen-sound-controloscvrchat
vrchat/VRChat-Sketchbook-Jam
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 6 pushes in 7 days
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