Benjamín Benavides

Interactive Developer

Interactive developer with 10+ years of experience building real-time systems for immersive installations, museum exhibits, and educational games. I lead technical development across platforms like TouchDesigner, Unity, and Unreal, turning creative concepts into robust, interactive experiences.

Work

Lead Developer

Proyección de Ideas Pi makes projection mapping, interactive installations and live events.
– Present
Santiago, Chile

Lead developer responsible for delivering real-time interactive installations and virtual experiences. Oversaw architecture, implementation, and cross-platform deployment while managing a small team of developers.

  • Led and scaled a 7-person dev team for a cross-platform web application enabling users to perform kinesiotherapy exercises from their phones using real-time AI pose estimation. Oversaw architecture, deployment, and coordination with design and research teams.

  • Developed audiovisual infrastructure for a large-scale public space, including a 7-projector video wall, cultural billboards, and synchronized music visualizations across networked computers. Built custom preview UIs to manage content remotely.

  • Built a real-time monitoring dashboard for a mining company, integrating live camera feeds, video playback, and operational data into a single interface tailored for internal use.

  • Created a multi-device control system for interactive experiences using TouchDesigner, Unreal, Arduino, and web tools. This allowed synchronized content playback across multiple computers and rooms.

  • Developed a custom smartphone-based participation system for a large-scale interactive installation, enabling audience members to engage in real time through their personal devices.

  • Prototyped a Unity-based 360° virtual tour framework for museum and corporate environments, enabling rich media navigation within web browsers.

Intern

Proyección de Ideas Internship focused on interactive content for product launches and training using VR.
Santiago, Chile

Developed a VR game for a motorcycle launch. Made an MVP of a VR interactive capacitation.

Intern

Piper Piper makes a toy for kids to learn electronics/programming by playing Minecraft.
San Francisco, CA

Worked at Piper during my summer holidays.

  • Made the website.

  • Directed and edited Kickstarter campaign video.

  • Made 3D animations for the game.

Education

Projects

Sleep Lab

Interactive booth at a science fair teaching kids about sleep research through hands-on activities.

Ecologías Híbridas

Interactive installation about the water consumption of AI image generation models.

Pochitos Artificiales

Family game where you improvise a presentation with AI generated images.

Antibodies

Museum game educating visitors on how the body defends against viruses, using interactive technology.

Escape Room

Interactive immersive multi-room experience where doctors, acting as special agents in groups of four, solved puzzles across 3 rooms.

Teletón Virtual Museum Tour

Virtual museum tour featuring 360° photos, showcasing children's artwork from the Teletón foundation.

Exponor

External Developer at Pi

Interactive augmented reality application for Magic Leap.

Luz y Sombra

Realtime interactive museum installation about light and shadow concepts.

Sinusoidal

Projection mapping presentation presented in Kiev’s Light Festival 2017.

Default

Realtime interactive museum installation about neuroscience.

Salmonero Ninja

Educational virtual reality game to learn about aquaculture.

Ångström

Educational mobile game about different scales of distance and basic chemical reactions.

Awards

LA.PCERA Videogame Jam

2nd place with virtual reality game.

The Bridge UC Scholarship

Awarded by PUC Engineering School

Entrepreneurship course at UC Berkeley in San Francisco, CA.

AbreCL Data Visualization Hackathon

Awarded by Chilean Government

1st place in physical interactive data visualization category.

Skills

Real Time

  • Unity
  • Touchdesigner
  • Unreal

Programming

  • Python
  • C#

AI

  • Pytorch
  • Keras
  • Tensorflow

Languages

Spanish

Native speaker

English

Advanced

Interests

Artificial Intelligence

  • Creative AI

Self-Hosting

  • Home lab
  • Home automation

Media Art

  • Interactive storytelling
  • Art installations
  • Comedic art

3D Printing

  • Parametrized modeling
  • Home improvement