José Diogo Cunha

XR developer - Problem Solver

Biography

Biomedical engineer, that accidentally became an XR developer. Creativity and enthusiasm helped me turn ideas into “things”. Striving to be a better engineer, colleague and leader

Interests

Biomedical Engineering
Mixed Reality
Interaction Design
Artificial Intelligence

Work

Technical Team Lead
2025 - PresentUZH - Balgrist (ROCS)
Mixed Reality Prototyper & Unity Developer
2023 - 2025Meta - Reality Labs
VR Game Developer & Co-founder
2021 - 2023Witty Platypus

Education

Msc in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics
2018University of Lisbon - Faculty of Sciences
EIT Labelled Master in Innovation in Health Care
2017Copenhagen Business School
BSc in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics
2016University of Lisbon - Faculty of Sciences

Experience

Technical Team Lead

UZH - Balgrist

Jun 2025 – Present Zurich - Switzerland

Leading a team of academic researchers and engineers to develop an XR app to train surgeons
Owning the technical direction of the project, from architecture and code quality to release planning, while staying hands-on in Unity
Bridging clinic and lab, translating surgeons’ requirements into a roadmap that researchers and engineers can build against

Mixed Reality Prototyper & Unity Developer

VR Game Developer + Co-founder

Witty Platypus

Jan 2021 – Nov 2023 Lisbon - Portugal

Main developer and technical artist in the team of 2 that developed Beers and Boomerangs
Nominee for Best Game in IGN’s Rogue Jam.
Best International Indie Game at PGA awards.
Published the game on 5 Platforms (Oculus, Pico, Steam, iQIYI, HTC)
Co-Founded the company

Data Scientist

Perspectum

Apr 2019 – Jan 2021 Oxford - UK

Using deep-learning (U-net) applied to 3D medical Imaging to automate extremely laborious and complex manual processes, I saved thousands of company working hours.
Developed user-friendly pipelines to facilitate processes otherwise time-consuming
Developed tools for data-visualization that are used across multiple teams

Product developer - Part-time

Joysys

Feb 2018 – Aug 2018 Graz - Austria

Worked on the documentation, legislation and early-stage development of a medical software that used cardiac data to create a personalized music playlist

Researcher - Intern

Institute of Neural Engineering - TU Graz

Jan 2018 – Aug 2018 Graz - Austria

I designed and managed a project that used live machine learning on EEG data to control a video game.
Published two papers out of the results of this 8-month project