Eric Griffis
Instructor Co-founder at Creator Playground
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Griffis is a software engineer and educator with 10+ years designing programming languages, distributed systems, and scalable web and data-processing architectures. As co-founder and instructor at Creator Playground he translates advanced technologies—robotics, VR, 3D printing—into hands-on curricula for children while concurrently pursuing a Ph.D. focused on decentralized programming languages and environments. His background blends applied research (formal semantics and prototype interpreters for data-flow languages), hands-on system building from seed-stage AI products to high-throughput web services, and leadership as a CTO and founder. Comfortable working across runtime internals, language design, and production pipelines, he has a track record of turning formal models into practical implementations deployed on heterogeneous clusters. Notably, he pairs pedagogy and product R&D—mentoring teams that included engineers and psychologists to build context-aware AI apps—bringing both technical depth and an educator’s knack for making complex concepts accessible.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (58)
racket10
editor10
elm10
reasonml10
ocaml10
reason10
monads10
code-golf10
dune10
lenses10
scheme10
category-theory10
functional-programming10
abstract10
opam9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dedbox/racket-texmath
Feb 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
dedbox/racket-glm
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:64 commits, 66 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
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