Multiplayer games
OsoParty
Four party games for a room full of people, each on their own phone. Drawing, trivia, categories, and hidden roles.
Benjamín Díaz
Software Engineer
Software Engineer at Microsoft, based in Chile. I build software, games, and creative tools, with a soft spot for nature and animals.
Software, games & creative tools
Selected projects
Creative software
Nielo Materials
A node-based material editor with live WebGPU previews and texture exports, right in the browser.
Interactive learning
Derivanto
A calculus app I made for my wife, with interactive graphs, practice, and a bear to keep her company.
Desktop companion
Oso Desktop
A little macOS bear that follows your cursor, reacts to touch, and lets you create your own companions.
E-commerce
Roldic Commerce
A bicycle shop’s storefront, inventory, order management, and payments, built as one platform.
Product engineering
Drizip
My full-stack work on a car-sharing platform, from backend services and infrastructure to the web app.
Along the way
The path so far
– 2019
Universidad del Bío Bío
Learning by building and teaching.
Intern → Teaching Assistant
– 2020
THE IVORY
Web and mobile applications while finishing university.
Engineering Intern
– 2023
Drizip
Helping build a car-sharing platform from its early days.
Software Engineer
Inside Security
Secure software, design patterns, and application architecture.
Full Stack Engineer
– now
Microsoft
Working remotely from Chile.
Software Engineer → Software Engineer II
Current
Creative coding
Experiments
A place for curiosity: flocking simulations, shader experiments, procedural sounds, and a game made in an afternoon.
Browser simulations
Procedural Art
Five browser simulations I built with Three.js and WebGL: Boids, Reaction-Diffusion, Physarum, Curl Noise, and Fluid. Published as an npm library.
Try the simulations
GPU experiments
Boids & Reaction-Diffusion in Unity
My experiments with flocking and reaction-diffusion using Unity compute shaders, with predators, prey, and competing patterns.
Procedural sound
Nielo SFX
A free web editor I built for procedural sound effects, with node graphs, waveforms, spectrograms, seeded variations, and WAV export.
An afternoon game
Perro Waton
A small Construct 3 game about a dog eating completos and running from an angry vendor. Made in an afternoon with MS Paint sprites and sounds recorded with my mouth.
Small things along the way
Field notes
Short notes on the choices behind the bears, tools, and experiments.
Letting the bear rest
A desktop companion should also know when to be still.
A material you can read
The node graph and its source are two views of the same file.
Move the curve first
A calculus lesson can begin with something you can change.
Tell me what you think.
Ideas, suggestions, and feedback on my projects are welcome.
hello@benjadiaz.com
Contact