Jeff Gray is a Senior UX Engineer with 12 years of cross-disciplinary experience designing and building interactive products for both research-driven teams and commercial clients, now working at Google DeepMind in Los Angeles. He combines a strong background in physical computing and new media (NYU ITP) with hands-on software and fabrication skills honed as an independent consultant and maker. At Google he progressed from User Experience Engineer to Senior roles, bringing practical interface craftsmanship and systems thinking to complex AI products. His open-source contributions to the well-known creative-coding toolkit openFrameworks reveal a continuing interest in graphics, iOS work, and low-level examples that bridge art and engineering. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance elegant UX with technical feasibility across hardware and software.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), focused in physical computing and new media art., MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), focused in physical computing and new media art. at New York University
BFA, Studio Art, double emphasis in graphic/interface design, BFA, Studio Art, double emphasis in graphic/interface design at University of Idaho
openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:41 commits, 9 PRs, 3 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Jeff contributed to example code, including adding new examples and modifying existing ones. They primarily focused on the graphics and iOS examples, incorporating features like rectangle alignment, scaling, and toggling smoothness. Additional contributions included merging updates from the master branch and addressing merge conflicts, indicating involvement in broader project maintenance. The user's work touched upon multiple aspects of the openFrameworks project.
Contributions:1 PR, 40 pushes, 32 branches in 10 months
cppc-plus-pluscross-platformopenframeworks
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