Summary
Adam Kumpf is a seasoned prototyper, creative technologist, and maker with 14 years of experience blending engineering, design, and data-driven thinking to ship tangible products and exploratory concepts. Trained at MIT (B.S., M.Eng., M.S. Media Arts & Sciences), he has deep roots in tangible interfaces and robotics from research roles with Hiroshi Ishii and Rodney Brooks and a track record founding studios and startups like Fiddlewax and The Chaos Collective. As Melder at Makefast Workshop and formerly a Design Exploration technologist at Sonos, he specializes in rapid physical prototyping, interaction design, and turning speculative ideas into buildable artifacts. Colleagues know him as a futurist problem-solver who stays hands-on with circuits, code, and form, and who enjoys bridging academic research with practical product work.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Media Arts and Sciences, M.S., Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, French