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Rodrigo
Medina
Software Engineer & Audiovisual Artist · Bangkok
13+ years shipping software across enterprise NLP, real-time systems, and interactive installations — currently building Pulsar Interactive.
Rodrigo Medina is an audiovisual artist and software engineer based in Bangkok.
His work lives at the intersection of code and sensory experience — Unity VR simulations of psychological disorders, AR sculptures made of live social data, generative visuals with Hydra, and live coding with TidalCycles and SuperCollider.
He is the founder of Pulsar Interactive, an AI-native microservices platform.
This website also acts as a lab inside Pulsar Interactive, where new tools, interaction ideas, and experimental features are explored in public.
Experience
Building AI-native solutions that integrate seamlessly into existing workflows. Specializing in smart process optimization, custom software development, and interactive audiovisual systems.
Led technical delivery for conversational AI products at the world's largest business travel company, coordinating cross-functional teams across Americas, APAC, and EMEA. Translated stakeholder requirements into engineering roadmaps and drove end-to-end releases from discovery through production.
Continued on the Claire platform following the acquisition. Designed and shipped production NLP pipelines — intent recognition, entity extraction, and dialogue management — powering conversational assistants used by millions of business travelers globally. Primary engineer on model evaluation, data pipelines, and quality frameworks.
Founded Omacatl, an event-organizing venture producing large-scale food and cultural festivals in Bangkok. Produced Tacofest Bkk and Singha Food Fest — handling full-stack event production, digital platforms, branding, and on-site operations.
Built Claire, a neural-network-powered chatbot for travel agencies — handling booking flows, itinerary management, and traveler support through natural language. Company acquired by American Express GBT during COVID.
Led engineering across digital signage, AR, and interactive installation projects in Southeast Asia, including the iMedia CMS platform deployed to 11K+ Android screens across Thailand's 7-Eleven network. Managed a cross-disciplinary team of developers and designers.
Built interactive installations and enterprise software for banking, retail, and hospitality clients across Thailand — spanning Unity 3D, WPF, ReactJS, WebRTC, and real-time Firebase applications.
Developed interactive experiences and game prototypes in Unity for this Mexico City creative studio, exploring emergent AI behavior, player agency, and real-time 3D simulation.
Built educational mobile games for Android and iOS addressing Common Core State Standards for K–2nd grade, including math quiz, card-matching, and survival-action titles using Unity 5.
Developed automated test frameworks and QA tooling at one of Latin America's leading software studios, contributing to large-scale web and mobile QA infrastructure.
13+ years of freelance software engineering across creative, enterprise, and interactive domains.
Selected Work
Psychological journey through the mind of a schizophrenic person. Developed with Unity 5, Blender, and custom CG shaders. Exhibited at LEIVA 2015 at Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City — the country's foremost national arts institution.
Virtual AR sculpture exploring collective intelligence and cloud computing. Interactive installation using mobile devices, augmented reality, and real-time Twitter data to create evolving 3D forms. Exhibited at Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City — the country's foremost national arts institution.
AI-native microservices platform. Founder/CTO. Building AI-native solutions that integrate seamlessly into existing workflows — smart process optimization, custom software, and interactive audiovisual systems.
Visit project →CMS and player monitoring system for +11K Android screens across every 7-Eleven in Thailand, built at Eibiz. System architect and team leader for a serverless architecture using Node.js, React, and native Android.
Contact
Available for collaborations on audiovisual, interactive, and generative projects.
Based in Bangkok. Working globally.
rodrigo.medina@pulsarinteractive.xyz