Tonia Beglari
Freelance Technical Experience Designer, Creative Technologist, Educator
Glendale, California, United States
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Top SchoolTonia Beglari is an award-winning experience designer and creative technologist with 11 years building interactive, socially minded projects across commercial, indie, academic, and festival contexts. She designs and engineers XR, AR, and web experiences—from multiplayer VR attractions and location-based AR for cities to community-driven internet art archives—balancing technical craftsmanship with human-centered UX. As a freelance lead and former AR engineer at Snap, she bridges product, ML, and creative teams to ship polished interactive work for clients like Universal Studios Japan, Sundance, and USC. An experienced educator, she teaches game design, virtual production, and creative coding, and juries prominent festivals including IndieCade and Slamdance. Notably, her practice combines live immersive performance roots with rigorous production processes, informed by international living and community mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Game and Interactive Media Design, Master’s Degree, Game and Interactive Media Design at University of Southern CaliforniaBA, Development Studies, BA, Development Studies at University of California, BerkeleyCreative Code Immersive, Creative Code Immersive at Gray Area Art + Technology
Github Skills (35)
rasterizer10
animation10
rendering10
vector-graphics10
drawing10
render10
svg10
api10
text-rendering10
rendering-engine10
renderer10
2d10
two-dimensional10
scene-graph9
javascript9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
toniab/konversation
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
toniab/grayarea
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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