Leo聽Burd
Director at Brazilian Creative Learning Program, MIT Media Lab
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolLeo Burd is a director and technology strategist with 16+ years of experience designing and leading interdisciplinary research and development programs that fuse creative learning, civic technology, and social empowerment. He has built and managed global teams and networks across Brazil, Latin America, Europe, India, Africa and the U.S., translating participatory, user-centered research into culturally mindful technology initiatives. At MIT Media Lab he has steered long-running creative learning programs and co-founded ventures that produce open-source tools and community-driven solutions. His background spans hands-on software engineering to PhD-level scholarship in educational technology and ICT4D, enabling him to bridge academia, industry, non-profits and grassroots organizations. Colleagues value his ability to shape strategic frameworks that guide novel tech development while keeping real-world social impact and local context front and center.
16 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, educational technology, ict4d, technology for social empowerment, PhD, educational technology, ict4d, technology for social empowerment at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBSc, computer science, BSc, computer science at Instituto Tecnol贸gico de Aeron谩utica - ITAMSc, education technology, learning, hci, MSc, education technology, learning, hci at Universidade Estadual de CampinasUniversity of Colorado Boulder
Portuguese, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (14)
android10
react8
javascript7
crontask6
cron6
drupal6
phpdoc6
api6
php6
cck6
curl6
freeswitch6
localization1
translation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
leoburd/asterisk
Mar 2010 - May 2010
Contributions:23 commits in 1 month
leoburd/dtn_website
Jun 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 1 month
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