Joel Gustafson
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Gustafson is an MIT-educated software engineer with 11 years of experience rooted in AI, programming languages, and human-computer interaction. Based in New York, he blends rigorous academic training (MIT 2018, Course 18C) with a practical, future-oriented lens he describes as "normcore futurism." His work focuses on making sophisticated research ideas accessible and usable, spanning prototyping, tooling, and interface design. Joel publishes work and projects at joelgustafson.com, signaling an appetite for public-facing technical communication as well as hands-on engineering. He brings a research-informed curiosity to product problems, often translating academic concepts into pragmatic software solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
357reputation
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1answer
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Github Skills (191)
projection10
topological-data-analysis10
adt10
approximation10
deno10
javascript10
tree-sitter10
dimensionality-reduction10
html-renderer10
data-model10
code-editor10
rust10
database10
rich-text10
text-editor10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
0xPARC/zkmessage.xyz
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
An anonymous message board powered by zero-knowledge group signatures.
Contributions:85 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 month
message-board
underlay/styx
Jul 2018 - May 2020
Experimental graph store. Gateway to the Underworld.
Contributions:231 commits, 8 PRs, 204 pushes in 1 year 10 months
graph-store
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