Experience
Artiste
Jem Sophia
✴︎
2022
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Interdisciplinary artist working in music (songwriting, producing, performance), AI, photography, video, 3D, visual art, technology research, and…pretty much everything else
Design Technologist
ZORA
✴︎
2022
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2023
Future-future R&D/prototyping; inventing experiments with our SDK and showcasing developer possibilities hidden in smart contracts
Invented an on-chain hypertext system
Invented a composable on-chain design protocol
Generative WebGL experiments & bespoke smart contract development
Developer Relations & ran our engineering organization’s beloved Twitter account
Co-founder
Cabin
✴︎
2021
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2022
Instigator, co-founder & initial tokenomics architect of a decentralized international creative community DAO centered on a co-living property outside of Austin.
Principal
Cosmic Computation Laboratory
✴︎
2019
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2022
Early-stage technology R&D, prototyping & storytelling, often at the intersection of design tooling, AI and web3
Invented Epochs: an on-chain sacred numerological calendar system with a native astrology
Clients included Spotify & Figma
Artist Residency
California Institute of Integral Studies × Building 180
✴︎
2019
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2019
“What Happens When A Cyborg Drinks Ayahuasca” artist residency exploring the intersections of deep learning, psychedelics & consciousness
Research Scientist
Airbnb
(Propel)
✴︎
2018
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2019
Airbnb's in-house R&D lab, exploring the intersection of spatial AI & VR
Design Technologist
Airbnb
(Design Tools)
✴︎
2016
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2018
Made a visual search engine for design files
Prototyped AI-augmented design tooling for a large design organization
Prototyped industry-first 'sketch to UI' design tools
Architected a novel design system pipeline to build multiple targets from a single source of truth
Created react-sketchapp - a novel React renderer to keep design assets in sync and generate UI training data for AI models
and so much more
Technologist
The Grid
✴︎
2015
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2016
AI-driven website builder
Architected an AI-powered typography system
Built in-house tooling for exploring large combinatorial spaces
Contributed to front-end architecture for generative websites
Principal
Internet & Things
✴︎
2014
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2015
Freelance design & full-stack engineering (Ruby on Rails, Backbone, Ember, Meteor, React, etc), and international conference speaker. Clients included Ableton, Sequoia Capital and Webflow
Technologist
Makeshift
✴︎
2013
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2014
Design, full-stack engineering & product ownership for a new product exploration lab
Lead Designer
Prismatic
✴︎
2011
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2011
Designed generative layouts for AI-driven news-feeds
ClojureScript front-end integration
Design
From the foundation of a traditional graphic design education (grids! typography!), I am experienced with all subgenres of the design process: print, web & mobile; wireframes & high-fidelity; brand & interactive.
Engineering
These days my stack tends to center around Next.js & Tailwind (like everyone else). When coding with LLMs I prefer Claude Code. I can write Swift, but usually reach for React Native first. This website was made with Framer. React has been my bread-and-butter since the first public release in 2013, and before that I worked with allll of the front-end frameworks (remember Backbone?). I tend to prefer TypeScript or serverless backends these days, but I am also experienced with Rails, Clojure & Python stacks.
Multimedia
I produce & mix my own music in Logic & Ableton, and edit videos in Final Cut Pro.
I write shaders in GLSL, and sometimes make interactive things with TouchDesigner.
I relish the opportunity to expand my 3D skills in Cinema4D, Blender & Unreal Engine.