Mauricio Gomez

Hi, my name is Mauricio Gomez and I am a Start Up Advisor, Mentor, Visual Artist and an Engineer. Currently I work at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

I have a special interest in Human and Computer Interaction, Robotics, Aerospace Technology and New Technologies in general. This has allowed me to work on a very broad set of projects that include visualization of big datasets, onboard diagnostic and development for cars, pipeline development for the film industry and even developing interfaces for airplane navigation systems.

I am always excited for new technologies! Lately, I have been playing with hacking my car in my free time. If you have an exciting project or work in a start up that you think I might be interested in, please do not hesitate to contact me and send me an email at mauricio@bukue.com. I look forward to participating in any project that can challenge me as a person and as an engineer.

By the way, if you access this webpage using an HTML 5 compliant browser you will find a nice surprise in the background.

Mauricio Gomez

Mauricio is a Start up Advisor and Mentor, Visual Artist and an Engineer with special interests in Human and Computer Interaction, Robotics, Aerospace Technology and New Technologies in general.

He holds a Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of New Mexico under the supervision of Professor Pradeep Sen. Mauricio also holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from the Tecnologico de Monterrey.

Mauricio has worked as a Software Engineer with industry leaders like Disney Animation Studios, Groupon, General Electric and IBM. He has also worked in start ups like POS Lavu and Aspen Avionics. In addition, he has been involved in research activities at the Advanced Graphics Lab in the University of New Mexico.

He holds a number of professional certifications such as Sun Certified Java Programmer, Object Oriented Modeling on Rational, Maya Dynamics, IBM Certified Associate for DB2 and Cisco Certified Network Associate. He is a current member of ACM.

Mauricio has also done several animated short films, along with dozens of cool graphic designs, 3D modeling and photography.

choose your poison

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As a Software Engineer I develop and maintain the web user facing systems for our business unit. My responsibilities include coding, testing and deployment of our code. Our main projects are the reports for our Point of Sale and a native iPhone report app for restaurants owners and managers.
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Ruby, CoffeScript, SQL, Swift, Objective-C.
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Rails, Backbone.js and jQuery.
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Git.
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As an Assitant Technical Director I developed and maintained several parts and tools of our pipeline. My main projects was the snow creation tool, render metrics and the publish UI.
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Python, JavaScript and PL/SQL.
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Fussion Charts, QT and jQuery.
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MySQL.
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I originally created this app as a week long hackathon project, so that merchants can have glanceable data about their restaurants at their finger prints. The product team decided to start a private beta with a couple of our merchants and within months we decided to graduated it into an actual product. You can find it in the app store <a href=

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This tool was extensively used in Frozen. This is a particle based brush that allows you to paint directly into surfaces. The resulting geometry was both lightwave and ready to animate or create simulations.
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Maya.
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Synthetic Vision for the EFD 1000 Glass Cockpit displays a real-time, 3D view of the terrain, obstacles and traffic in a simple way so the pilot can have enhanced awareness of the environment. <br/><br/> I helped to implement the 3D view of the terrain, 3D obstacles display, 3D traffic display, airport and runways display, altitude guidance and many aspects of the user interface.
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In house libraries and Open GL ES.
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Beehive is an unobstrusive tool I did for the Walt Disney Animation Studios that attaches in run time to Autodesk Maya QT binaries to log the user interface events to analyze them and show all sorts of reports and charts in a web component. Due to it's architechture it brings great benefits to programmers and can be easily portable to any other software that uses QT. <br/><br/>
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Python, PHP, JavaScript, TSCH Scripting and PL/SQL.
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Fussion Charts, QT and jQuery.
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MySQL.
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Lead the team that reimplemented the whole backend administration portal and the printer finder algorithm for the main app.
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PHP, JavaScript, PL/SQL and Objective-C
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jQuery and iOS libraries.
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Freedome is a wrapper on top of the Open GL pipeline in order to render into a halfshere dome located in the <a href='http://artslab.unm.edu/' target='_blank'>Arts Lab</a> in the University of New Mexico. <br/><br/> My main task was to create a 3D simulation of the dome under Open GL by project texturing 6 different frame buffers created by our wrapper and mask them so no overlap is shown in the final image. </td>
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C and C++.
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Open GL and Qt.
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Microsoft Visual Studio, Xcode and CMake.
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An iPhone app to keep track of where you left your car. You just record the position when you parked and this app will help you navigate to your car whenever you want. Additionally it has a parkimeter so you will be alerted if your time in this spot is running out. Plus you can share your car location just in case you share your car with somebody else. <br/><br/>
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iOS SDK.
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A quick website prototype that never saw the light of day. It was pretty advanced: jQuery drag and drop, custom plug in development and extremely easy to use.
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An iPhone app to keep track of the fares cabs charges. It calculates the fare by recording the distance and time traveled. It also includes an emergency button to warn your friends or family in case of emergency. <br/><br/>
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Moire Maps is a technique that relies over the Band Moire Fringes to multiplex information that otherwise would be imposible to parse. In this example we used a printed arline route map like those found in the magazines. By using our technique we increased the level of acuracy of people finding if two cities were connected or not by at least 20% compared with the traditional route maps
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Python and Javascript.
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Python Image Libraries and Photoshop Scripting.
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This is a XNA 3D game of 2 slimes that play soccer again each other. Supports single player versus the computer or multiplayer.
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XNA.
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Developed the whole front end for the <a href='http://agl.unm.edu/' target='_blank'>Advanced Graphics Lab</a>. Including listing publications, research areas, programs and classes in the lab. <br/><br/>
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PHP, JavaScript, CSS and HTML.
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jQuery.
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Photoshop.
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I used the equipment on the <a href='http://artslab.unm.edu/' target='_blank'>Arts Lab</a> to capture the camera equipment and developed a script to use that data when rendering in Lux Render. <br/><br/>
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Python and Lux Render Description Language.
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Python IDLE, Lux Render and Arts Lab Motion Capture Equipment.
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A web app that allows to know at any time the current position and damage status of every single trailer in the loading and unloading zone. The app is fed up by a mobile component that runs in a Windows Mobile handheld.
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Java and SQL.
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jQuery.
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Eclipse and Photoshop.
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A CRM to be used by car dealerships specially tuned to the mexican market.
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C#, JavaScript, SQL and HTML.
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jQuery.
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$<table> <tr> <td class='portTip'> An Open GL application that parses a grammar and produces an fractal based on it. As you can see it is very usefull to produce tree-like geometries. <br/><br/> Programmed together with Aram Gonzalez. </td> </tr> <tr> <table> <tr> <td class='bold'> Languages: </td> <td class='portTip'> C. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class='bold'> Libraries: </td> <td class='portTip'> Open GL and Glut. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class='bold'> Tools: </td> <td class='portTip'> Eclipse and SVN. </td> </tr> </table> </tr> </table>$ $<table> <tr> <td class='portTip'> Monte Carlo Ray Tracer. Effects implemented: reflections, refractions, antialiasing, Fresnel equations, soft shadows, glossy reflections and depth of field. <br/><br/> </td> </tr> <tr> <table> <tr> <td class='bold'> Languages: </td> <td class='portTip'> C. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class='bold'> Libraries: </td> <td class='portTip'> EasyBMP. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class='bold'> Tools: </td> <td class='portTip'> Eclipse and SVN. </td> </tr> </table> </tr> </table>$

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Implemented the Mini C grammar for the undergraduate compilers construction class. <br/><br/>
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Flex and Bison.
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Please come again later, we will update this slide show soon!

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The latest version of my business card. It is etched in metal. If you want one drop me a line with an address to mail it to you. <br/><br/>
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An interface for an entrance control system based on touch screen. <br/><br/>
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A wallpaper for G animation Labs. <br/><br/>
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We published a CD with all the music we broadcast in enfiltro.com. <br/><br/>
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All the materials for this iPhone App. <br/><br/>
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A design for a t-shirt I designed. I have sold few of them. Can you decipher what does it means? <br/><br/>
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Just a quick test on photorealistic modeling and rendering. <br/><br/>
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A crazy idea that came to my mind. Next step is to create ear butterflies! <br/><br/>
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All frontend for <a href='http://agl.unm.edu/'>agl.unm.edu</a> including custom drupal theme and custom section displaying. <br/><br/>
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Remember the face that was before? Well this is the body of it. <br/><br/>
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A poster to be exhibited on the records shop to promote our CD. <br/><br/>
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One of my first business card. <br/><br/>
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Just a quick test to prove Mental Ray in Maya. <br/><br/>
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Navier and Stokes Science Fair Poster. We won! <br/><br/>
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A poster for a conference at the Tecnologico de Monterrey Campus Estado de Mexico.
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The flyer for a very funny party we did back in times of enfiltro.com. <br/><br/>
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Login page for a custom CRM we developed for car dealerships in Mexico. <br/><br/>
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All marketing materials for this iPhone app. <br/><br/>
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A photo I took while hiking in the Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque, New Mexico. <br/><br/>
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A very artistinc tone mapping of a HDRI I took in Mexico City. <br/><br/>
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A church you can find near the main plaza in my home town. <br/><br/>
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A quick draw of this peculiar character. At the end, deviants own the world. <br/><br/>
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A quick test with my lens extensor. <br/><br/>
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A photo I took back in Cuautitlan Izcalli a nice suburb of Mexico City. <br/><br/>
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Photoshop and Canon 40D DLSR.
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One more photo from Mexico City. <br/><br/>
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Photoshop and Canon 40D DLSR.
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Mauricio Gomez

Mauricio Gomez

phone: 323 682 8583

B U K U E

wechat: drbukue

mail: mauricio@bukue.com