John Maeda
Summary
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RockstarJohn Maeda is a multidisciplinary technology and design leader with 23 years of experience blending computation, product, and creative practice to scale AI-driven systems and experiences. Currently CVP Engineering for Microsoft CoreAI Computational Design & Research, he focuses on architecting the systems layer that makes intelligent agents governable, adoptable, and useful for developers and enterprises. A former RISD president, MIT Media Lab professor, CTO, board director and author of five books, Maeda uniquely bridges fine arts—his work sits in MoMA and Cartier collections—and enterprise engineering. He has a track record of turning design thinking into production-ready platforms, seeding startups (e.g., early investor in Canva and Typeform), and advancing STEAM policy at national levels. Known for championing “design + code” and agentic experiences, he combines academic rigor (SM, MBA, PhD) with hands-on product leadership across cloud, AI, and developer tools.
23 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
artificial-intelligence10
wordpress10
redux10
llm10
sdk10
openai10
ai10
wordpress-plugin10
nodejs10
react10
gutenberg9
semantic-kernel9
csharp7
plugin7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
johnmaeda/designintech-2019
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Design In Tech Report 2019 Edition
Contributions:28 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
report
PublicisSapient/LEAD-open
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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