Christian Barsallo

I'm a Unity Developer living in Panama with 5+ years of experience. I'm passionate about immersive technologies, UI/UX, tooling, game design and storytelling.

Christian
Alberto
Barsallo
Mendoza

Panamá Oeste, Panamá

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +507 6766-3246
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christian-barsallo

Summary

I'm a Unity Developer based in Panama, specializing in XR development for AR handheld devices and Meta Quest. I'm passionate about immersive technologies, new UI/UX paradigms, game design, and storytelling.Crafting engaging virtual experiences, optimizing gameplay mechanics, pushing the boundaries of interactive storytelling. I thrive on bringing ideas to life through code and creativity.

Experience

Lead Unity Developer
Ilikeit, Inc.
April 2022 - March 2025 (3 years)As team lead, I oversaw the development of self-contained XR experiences using Unity AR Foundation and ML / AI for our own in-house built platform and a public-facing SDK for UGC. I coordinated with design and backend teams to optimized our production-to-release timeframes.I also designed new UI components for Unity based on the company's design language with user experience principles specifically for AR/MR.Developed persistent Multiplayer AR experiences using Cloud Anchors for both Android and iOS where users could locate and share experiences together in the real world.Designed an in-app AR Editor that enabled us to view, create and anchor new experiences in real life locations making it easier and faster for the team to iterate new content for the platform

Unity Developer
Freelance
March 2021 - April 2022 (1 year 1 month)Worked with clients to design and implement a wide range of gameplay mechanics for their projects. Also was commissioned to built several levels, props and avatars for the VRChat platform along with their scripting language Udon.

Software Developer / Sales Operations Analyst
Dell Technologies
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021 (1 year 8 months)Technology/Tools used: Microsoft Excel, Access, Salesforce, AHK, Git, C#, PowerBI, Javascript and Windows Server- Proposed and developed an internal CRM from requirements to deployment and support in a fast-paced and agile environment that was adopted by the whole sales team
- Worked individually and was responsible for all areas of the development lifecycle

Inside Product Specialist
Dell Technologies
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019 (7 months)Technology/Tools used: Microsoft Excel, Access, Salesforce, AHK and Git- Developed internal tools to improve access to customer contact data and increase efficiency within the sales department
- Make outbound calls as part of managing the sales cycle, and respond to field sales, resellers and end customer inquiries
- Focus on Dell Technologies products and services and be able to identify how these products and services align to customer needs
- Explain technical, industry and market facts to position Dell Technologies against an alternative solution

Sales Operations Analyst
Dell Technologies
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019 (3 months)Technology/Tools used: Microsoft Excel, Access, Salesforce and AHK- Worked as part of a team while managing my own account set to proactively reach customers
- Improved efficiency of the department through automation of several manual/time consuming processes and internal sales tools to improve productivity
- Mentored new hires to settle into the new position and helped them by offering shadowing of the whole sales process

Sales Operations Analyst Internship
Dell Technologies
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018 (3 months)Technology/Tools used: Microsoft Excel, Access and Salesforce- Worked with customers to create and revise quotes to fit their specific needs
- Provided continued support for the sales team with data management of customer information in and sales numbers
- Customer communication including proactive emails, customer acquisition campaigns and calls

Education

World Computer
Associate Degree in Computer Repair and Networking
2015
- System administration
- Troubleshooting
- Windows and Linux networking

Honors & Awards

Top Overall Performer - Dell Technologies
Mar 2019

Team Player - Dell Technologies
Feb 2019

Above and Beyond Recognition - Dell Technologies
Jan 2019
For outstanding effort automating APOS processes with macros

Click on image to see more