Welcome! My name is Damian Figueroa, and I am pursuing an undergraduate degree in computer science at the University of Maryland: College Park. I have had a life-long passion for software development and creatively using technology to solve problems. Through personal projects, I have self-taught myself in many different areas such as mobile app development, virtual reality applications, robotics, games, cybersecurity, and backend software.

I am extremely passionate about the emerging "XR" field (virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality) and am currently the President of the XR Club at UMD. I greatly enjoy hosting workshops (as you can see above!) to educate our club members about using the Unity game engine and other specialized topics.

Projects

Terrality

I built this application at the University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center. It is capable of visualizing weather datasets and displaying them on a globe. I also built the control-panel user-interface to allow users to customize properties about the visualization.

Tactile

As I have built Unity applications, I have created a group of useful libraries that I call "Tactile". These include a command console, helpful extension methods, animation functions, and more. You can check them out under my "Figsware" GitHub organization. View on GitHub

A "Fire" Training App

A group of friends and I attended MIT Reality Hack 2024 and built A "Fire" Training App, which lets you practice fire evacuations in your own home using the power of mixed-reality. We ended up winning the Enhanced Education track!

I am the one with the fox beanie in the video :) View on Devpost

XR Club Website

I made the website for the XR Club at the University of Maryland (I am also the President!). It not only looks cool, but it connects to a internal database to take our dynamic content (events, roster, etc.) and build lightweight static webpages with Astro. Visit XR Club

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