Summary
James Powderly is a multidisciplinary product designer and inventor with 11+ years building breakthrough human-centered platforms in consumer devices, AR, and autonomy. He has led design for landmark products like Alexa+, Snap’s Spectacles and SnapOS, and Magic Leap One—helping secure large investments, ship global teams’ work, and deliver the first consumer spatial computing experiences. A hands-on coder and founder with 50+ design and technology patents, he bridges hardware, software, and interaction design to create novel multimodal AI interfaces. His work spans art and science—from enabling a paralyzed artist to draw with their eyes to contributing to the discovery of water on Mars—and his digital art is included in MoMA’s permanent collection. Based in Seoul and currently at Amazon’s AGI lab, he combines research-grade experimentation with product rigor to empower creative humans at scale.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BM Music Theory and Composition, BM Music Theory and Composition at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Master's degree Interactive Telecommunication, Master's degree Interactive Telecommunication at New York University
Korean, English, computer