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Michele DEBONIS

Junior XR/Game Developer specializing in cultural heritage and virtual museum experiences

Scuola Superiore Sant’AnnaUniversité Paris-SaclayOrsay, France1 Years ExperienceJunior LevelWorks Remote

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XR/AR Unity developer who has overseen ~4 XR projects including shipping on Meta Quest, a HoloLens mixed-reality archaeology experience, and a collaborative 3D model exploration POC. Strong track record of aggressive performance optimization (custom shaders, profiling, draw-call reduction) and user-testing with domain experts; also experimented with ONNX-based procedural content generation and built a solo AR Tower of Hanoi game using AR Foundation (with a WebXR extension).

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Key Strengths

  • Shipped Unity XR experiences on Meta Quest with strong performance focus (90fps)
  • Deep optimization expertise (poly/texture budgets, draw call reduction, efficient shaders, profiling)
  • Custom shader and optimization tooling development in Unity to meet headset constraints
  • End-to-end solo Unity AR project delivery (C#, UI, 3D assets, interaction design)
  • Strong AR interaction/UX implementation (anchoring, touch controls, haptics, visual cues)
  • Experience integrating ONNX models for experimental procedural content generation
  • User-testing-driven development with domain experts to ensure accuracy and usability
  • Modular, adaptable system design approach for changing requirements

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Experience

TP Développement Orienté Objet, S4IUT Orsay · Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
TP Initiation au développement, S4IUT Orsay · Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
TP Développement d’applications avec IHM, S4IUT Orsay · Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
TP Développement Web, S1IUT Orsay · Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Internship – PERCRO (Perceptual Robotics)Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna · Jan 2020 – Jan 2020internship

Education

Université Paris-Saclaydoctorate, Computer Science (2025)
University of Pisamaster, Informatica Umanistica (Digital Humanities) (2020)
University of Basilicatabachelor, Studi letterari linguistici e storico-filosofici (Humanities) (2017)

Awards

  • Creartathon 2022 - 1st prize (design and creation of an intelligent interactive artefact)

Languages

ItalianEnglishFrenchGermanTurkishLatinAncient Greek

Certifications

Game Design - Università di PisaPiano - Conservatorio Gesualdo da Venosa

Publications

5 publications

Virtual Reality (VR)Mixed Reality (MR)Extended Reality (XR) for cultural heritageVirtual museum visits and guided toursXR interaction techniques and navigationAnnotation visualization in VRUser studies and evaluation in XRProcedural generation for game levels

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Michele DEBONISJunior XR/Game Developer specializing in cultural heritage and virtual museum experiences