Arie Stavchansky
Founder at Dataclay
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArie Stavchansky is a multidisciplinary founder and product engineer with over a decade building interactive media, video automation tools, and full-stack web applications. He founded Dataclay and architected Templater, an Adobe After Effects extension that pipes Google Sheets data into motion graphics, blending C++ integration with scripting and cross-platform toolchains. A Ph.D. in Digital Media from UT Austin and an M.Des. in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon inform his rare combination of research-backed media theory, UX systems thinking, and hands-on implementation. He’s shipped products for Nintendo, Warner Bros., Sony and Dell, led engineering teams in healthcare integrations, and continues to teach advanced interaction design, showing a commitment to both practitioner tooling and pedagogy. Known for translating complex production workflows into practical automation, he pairs creative direction and VFX experience with rigorous software engineering.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Digital Media Studies & Production, Ph.D. Digital Media Studies & Production at The University of Texas at AustinM.Des. Interaction Design, M.Des. Interaction Design at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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44answers
62questions
Github Skills (142)
templater10
client-library10
google-api10
proxy-protocol9
get-started9
winston9
command-line-interface9
google-sheets-api-v49
google-sheets9
mustache9
fluent-api9
fonts9
router9
font-awesome9
google-fonts9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dataclay/cli-tools
Nov 2017 - Sep 2022
Tools to get started with using Templater's command line interface
Contributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 49 pushes in 4 years 10 months
command-line-tooltemplateget-startedcommand-line-interfacemustache
dataclay/event-scripts
Apr 2018 - Jul 2021
Sample scripts to run on various bot events
Contributions:91 commits, 11 PRs, 109 pushes in 3 years 3 months
botpythonevents
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