Surya Buchwald
Software Engineer at MMM Labs
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.
11 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 (123)
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prefab10
virtual-webcam10
unity3d10
csharp10
simulation10
neural-style-transfer10
udp9
virtual-camera9
oculus9
midi9
audio9
style-transfer9
weechat9
osc9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
vrchat/packages-test
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
test run for public package repo
Contributions:1 release, 38 commits, 8 PRs in 7 months
testing
vrchat-community/vpm-listing-curated
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 releases, 31 reviews, 32 PRs in 2 years
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