Dan Michaelson
Founding Partner, Creative Director, And Technical Lead
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Michaelson is a founding partner, creative director, and technical lead at New York design studio Linked by Air, with 11 years of professional experience leading multidisciplinary teams that blend design, code, and institutional strategy. He builds design systems and platforms—most notably the Economy CMS—and crafts web and interaction experiences for major cultural and educational institutions like The Shed and Columbia GSAPP. His work is distinguished by an emphasis on inclusive, ethical, and evolvable systems that align content, governance, and user workflows rather than treating design and engineering as separate silos. Dan also teaches at Yale and has invented courses that teach programming from first principles and explore locative and time-based computing, bringing academic experimentation into practical projects. Beyond sites and CMSs, his studio’s projects have generated measurable social impact—such as the Midnight Madness urban game that raised over $8M for charity—revealing a knack for coupling creative technologies with real-world outcomes. Based in New York with an MFA from Yale and a BA in American History from Columbia, he combines historical perspective with technical fluency to reimagine how institutions present and evolve digitally.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA, American History, BA, American History at Columbia University in the City of New YorkMFA, Graphic Design, MFA, Graphic Design at Yale University
Github Skills (48)
markup10
converter10
harvest10
pandoc10
table-of-contents9
markdown9
youtrack9
commonmark9
markup-language9
haskell9
reloaded7
upload-file7
bug-tracker6
spell6
mobile-application5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
extempl/youtrack-support-for-harvest-extension
Jul 2014 - Jul 2018
YouTrack support for Harvest Time Tracker extension
Contributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 4 years 1 month
youtracktrackerharvesttime-tracker-extension
linkedbyair/harvest-chrome
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 3 pushes, 6 tags in 1 year
chrome-extensionjavascriptchromeairharvest
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