Laurie Spiegel is a veteran composer, software designer, and multimedia technologist blending five decades of creative practice with hands-on coding and systems work. She leads Aesthetic Engineering and a project studio from New York, designing generative music and image software, audio/visual synthesis tools, and interactive human interfaces while composing for film, dance, theater and concert performance. Her background spans low-level programming (C, FORTRAN, assembly) and early video synthesis to modern back-end contributions on open-source cloud storage projects, reflecting uncommon fluency across art and engineering. A longtime educator and consultant, she has advised on image-recognition and software patent matters and even rehabilitates wildlife as a licensed NYS DEC Class 1 practitioner. Known for marrying rigorous technical thinking with emotional, exploratory soundscapes, she combines archival analog practices with contemporary digital systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Music Composition, Music Composition at Juilliard
MA, Music Composition, MA, Music Composition at City University of New York-Brooklyn College
AB, Social Sciences, AB, Social Sciences at Shimer College
Philosophy and Related Subjects, Philosophy and Related Subjects at Oxford University
Zenko CloudServer, an open-source Node.js implementation of the Amazon S3 protocol on the front-end and backend storage capabilities to multiple clouds, including Azure and Google.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1255 commits, 690 PRs, 1150 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Laurie's commits primarily focused on implementing and modifying back-end functionalities within the Zenko CloudServer project. The changes include fixing errors when setting object ACLs, adding routes for PUT object operations to the server, and modifying the file structure to incorporate new functions. The contributions also involved modifying the underlying utility functions to handle key requests and preparing code for database integration.
Contributions:44 commits, 8 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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