Taru Muhonen
Senior XR Designer Design Engineer at Stencil VR
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTaru Muhonen is a Senior XR Designer and Design Engineer with over a decade of experience blending computer science and HCI to build compelling spatial interactions across XR, wearables and AI-enabled products. She has led design teams and shipped developer-facing tooling and SDK samples at companies like Ultraleap and Lenovo, and created ML model benchmarking tooling adopted by research and C-level stakeholders. Her background spans Unity/Unreal pipelines, shader work, CAD/IFC integration and hands-on coding (C#, GLSL, JS), enabling her to translate research outcomes into production-ready demo experiences showcased at events such as CES. As a founder and early VR company lead, she also brings product-building grit and experience delivering large-scale architectural visualizations and training systems. Based in Bristol with UK Global Talent status and a Berlin creative background, she combines agency and in-house rigor with a knack for turning complex ML/CV and spatial constraints into elegant interaction patterns.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Human-Technology Interaction (HCI, Computer Science), Master's Degree, Human-Technology Interaction (HCI, Computer Science) at University of Tampere 1925-2018
English, Finnish
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (3)
briandavism/FixieBot_GGJ2020
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
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