Christopher Michel
Artist-in-Residence at Christopher Michel Photography
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Michel is a photographer, entrepreneur, and explorer who translates scientific and exploratory work into compelling human stories through portraiture and documentary projects. A former Naval Flight Officer with an MBA from Harvard, he founded early internet communities including Military.com and Affinity Labs, and has made over 100 seed investments through Nautilus Ventures in companies that shaped their categories. Today he serves as Artist-in-Residence at the National Academies and The Long Now Foundation, leading long-term portrait projects that spotlight leading scientists and innovators. His work spans polar expeditions to the stratosphere, appears widely in museums and media, and is framed by leadership roles on boards from CatchLight to the Union of Concerned Scientists. Uncommonly, he combines deep operational startup experience with a visual archive of contemporary science, bridging venture, storytelling, and exploration.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMBA, MBA, MBA, MBA at Harvard Business School
Github Skills (13)
css-library10
prototyping10
looker10
rapid9
react9
ui-components9
component-library9
design-tokens9
infrastructure9
css8
sass6
heroku4
coffeescript3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jhardy/sache
Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:81 commits in 2 months
treehouse/project-leap
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
Leap is an internal CSS library made for Treehouse. It contains immutable utility classes that enable rapid front-end prototyping.
Contributions:9 releases, 155 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
treehouseinternalcssprototypingcss-library
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