Julian Bleecker
Founder at Near Future Laboratory
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Bleecker is a founder and design technologist with two decades of experience translating strategic foresight into tangible products and prototypes from his Near Future Laboratory in Los Angeles. He has built and led ventures end-to-end—most notably founding OMATA, where he engineered a premium analog-styled cycling computer, handled everything from firmware and patents to operations, and saw the company through a successful sale. His background spans academic research and teaching in interactive media, senior creative technology roles at HERE/Nokia, and hands-on systems engineering for media companies, giving him a rare blend of cultural, technical, and product fluency. Known as a contrarian, optimistic advisor, he specializes in pre-visualizing how strategy plays out in the real world and turning speculative ideas into testable, market-ready artifacts.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS Eng Computer-Human Interaction, MS Eng Computer-Human Interaction at University of WashingtonBSEE Electrical Engineering, BSEE Electrical Engineering at Cornell UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
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Github Skills (64)
dsl10
autolayout10
ios9
android9
rssi9
snapkit9
xcode9
react9
bluetooth-low-energy9
swift9
corebluetooth9
bit8
hero8
tvos8
command-line-interface8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bleeckerj/fit-sdk-with-swift
Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year
garminfitsdkswiftbit
bleeckerj/Files2Book
Jul 2025 - Dec 2025
Contributions:65 pushes, 12 branches in 4 months
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