Summary
Ian Grossberg is a Tokyo-based creative technologist and lead mentor with 10+ years of experience blending UX, interactive media, and engineering to build immersive installations, VR experiences, and web-physical hybrids. He has a strong track record founding and advising creative studios and startups—leading software at Poursteady, co-founding Adorkable, and shaping exhibit work for institutions like the Smithsonian—while architecting both cloud-connected IoT and playful hands-on prototypes. Ian combines practical product leadership with deep technical execution across Unity, mobile, and hardware integrations, and he’s comfortable moving between workshops, client engagements, and shipped products. He focuses on human-centered systems that encourage play, community, and environmental impact, and he brings an educator’s sensibility to mentorship and workshop design. Quiet about code but ambitious in impact, he often turns exploratory concepts into testable prototypes and sustainable architectures. Based in Tokyo, he mixes playful curiosity with rigorous engineering to produce memorable, purpose-driven experiences.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High School Degree, High School Degree at Livingston High School
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Japanese, Hebrew