Thorsten Bux
Chief Executive Officer at Self-employed
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolThorsten Bux is a CEO and WebAR specialist with over a decade of experience turning augmented reality from experimental tech into commercial products that drive engagement and sales. He founded Tripod Digital and has led AR initiatives for publishers, galleries and major platforms—his web-based AR work has generated thousands of views and measurable boosts in book and magazine engagement. As VP of Software Engineering at Rock Paper Reality and former Lead Software Engineer at Yahoo, he blends product leadership with deep hands-on engineering, especially in browser-native AR and image-recognition workflows. Thorsten maintains webarkit and is known in the open-source WebAR community for making AR accessible without apps or complex installs. He combines an academic grounding in business informatics with practical IoT and AR platform experience, often reducing logistical friction for artists and publishers through digital-first solutions. Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, he’s equally comfortable scaling teams, shipping SDKs, and prototyping playful edutainment experiences that keep users engaged for minutes rather than seconds.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Business Informatics, 1,3, Master of Science, Business Informatics, 1,3 at Fachhochschule Furtwangen - Hochschule für Technik und WirtschaftStudy Abroad, Information Technology, Application Programming, JUnit Testing, Game Programming (C#), Study Abroad, Information Technology, Application Programming, JUnit Testing, Game Programming (C#) at University of Technology, Sydney
English
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Github Skills (21)
arjs10
android-development10
java10
javas10
android10
computer-vision10
opengl-es10
opengl10
c-language9
3d-graphics9
matrix9
mat9
cprogramming-language9
android-ndk6
macos6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ThorstenBux/arStudio
Oct 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:56 commits, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
rockpaperreality/action-deployment
Aug 2022 - Jun 2024
RPR's AWS deployment GitAction
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 1 year 9 months
aws-deploymentdeploymentgitactionrprkubernetes
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