# Michael Schöggl

Michael Schöggl is a remote worker on Himalayas, Founder & CEO at Avataris GmbH, based in Austria.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@michaelschggl

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Founder & CEO at Avataris, building AI agents and Digital Humans; created connect, a VR app ranked #10 on HTC Viveport.
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Austria |
| Authorized to work in | Austria |
| Salary expectations | 100k+ EUR |
| Job categories | AI Product Developer, Software Developer, Product Manager |
| Skills | Startup Founding, Product Strategy, Concept Development, Fundraising, Recruitment, Remote Team Management, AI Agent Orchestration, AI assisted software development, Digital Humans, Virtual Reality, Extended Reality, Real Time 3D, Unity, C#, LPC |
| Website | https://m-schoeggl.com |
| Portfolio | https://m-schoeggl.com |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/schoeggl |

## What I'm looking for

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I offer exclusively remote, performance-based software and IT development through Unicorn Dev or triumviry—not permanent employment. Clients pay per accepted line of code, can cancel any day, and retain full intellectual property.
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## About

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At Avataris GmbH, I’m leading the development of photorealistic, AI-driven Digital Humans and AI agents, including Aimigo. I pivoted Avataris to business use cases and generated EUR 300k in revenue from its first two enterprise clients, including voestalpine.

I built connect, a VR-capable virtual home and multi-messenger, alone. It reached #10 among 1,700+ VR apps on HTC Viveport and passed 40,000 downloads across VR and Android.

With exployt, I’m building AI agent orchestration to direct teams of autonomous agents in software development. I offer remote, performance-based software development through Unicorn Dev and triumviry, with clients paying for accepted product logic.
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## Experience

### Founder & CEO (current)

Avataris GmbH. Aug 2019 - Present

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Founded and led a company developing photorealistic, AI-driven Digital Humans and AI agents. Personally wrote about 20% of the codebase, led 250+ remote freelancers, and generated EUR 300k revenue from the first two enterprise clients.
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Skills: Unity, C#, AI-Agents, Digital-Humans, Leadership, Fundraising, Remote-Team-Management

### Founder & CEO (current)

e.com GmbH. Jan 2014 - Present

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Founded and led the development of connect, a VR-capable virtual home and multi-messenger. Achieved popularity rank #10 of 1,700+ VR apps on HTC Viveport and 40,000+ downloads.
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Skills: VR, Unity, C#, Product-Development, entrepreneurship

### Chapter President Austria

VR/AR Association. Jan 2019 - Dec 2020

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Led the Austrian chapter of the international VR/AR industry association and organised community events.
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Skills: Leadership, Community-Management, Event-Organization

### Research Assistant in Psychology

University of Graz. Jan 2008 - Dec 2010

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Conducted psychological experiments as a research assistant.
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Skills: Research, Experimental-Design

### Programmer

Avalon. Jan 2006 - Dec 2006

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Picked up LPC and became a programmer for the text-based multi-user dungeon Avalon, creating a new race, rebuilding the Bard guild, and reworking an island, which doubled the player base.
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Skills: LPC, Game-Development, Programming

### Author

Self-Published. Jan 2006 - Dec 2006

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Authored the book 'Bilder und Gedanken von Arthur Redhead'.
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Skills: Writing

## Education

### University of Graz

Diplom, Psychology. 2003 - 2014

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Pursued psychology studies at the University of Graz from 2003 to 2014, including research assistant work and experiments.
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### Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Studies, Egyptology, Prehistory and Near Eastern Archaeology. 2002 - 2003

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Studied Egyptology, Prehistory and Near Eastern Archaeology at LMU Munich from 2002 to 2003.
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### University of Graz

Studies, Business Administration, Archaeology and Ancient History. 2001 - 2002

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Studied Business Administration, Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Graz from 2001 to 2002.
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### Abteigymnasium Seckau

Matura, General. 1993 - 2001

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Completed Matura (secondary school diploma) at Abteigymnasium Seckau from 1993 to 2001.
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## Tech stack

- Unity
- C#
- Gemini
- ElevenLabs
- OpenRouter
- Claude
- OpenAI

To contact Michael, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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