Chaim Gingold
Freelance Designer & Independent Developer at Self-Employed
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChaim Gingold is a multidisciplinary designer and independent developer with 11+ years of experience building playful authoring tools, tangible computing prototypes, and simulation-driven experiences for clients including EA/Maxis, Valve, Linden Lab, UCSF Medical School, and Y Combinator Research. As design lead on Spore’s Creature Creator he helped shape a creative tool used to produce millions of user creations, and later led research projects with pioneers like Bret Victor and Dan Ingalls exploring accessible programming and tangible interfaces. He self-funds and ships experimental projects such as the award-winning Earth: A Primer, while consulting on product strategy, prototyping, and team building for startups and research labs. Based in Oakland, he’s finishing a history of SimCity and computer simulation for MIT Press, signaling a rare combination of hands-on design craft, scholarly research, and a long-term interest in how play and tools shape technology.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Minor in English, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Minor in English at West Virginia UniversityMaster’s Degree, Digital Media Design, Master’s Degree, Digital Media Design at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (6)
maxis6
javascript4
phaser4
typescript3
webgl3
electron2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chaimgingold/Tabla
Jul 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:538 commits, 1 PR, 421 pushes in 2 years 3 months
douglaslab/gelbox
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:272 commits, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
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