Matt Felsen
Technology Director at Self-employed
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Felsen is a Technology Director and creative technologist with 13 years of experience designing and delivering award-winning interactive media and experiential installations across museums, corporate, retail, and entertainment sectors. He blends hands-on C++ and GPU-heavy development (including contributions to the openFrameworks graphics toolkit) with product leadership—managing engineering teams, installations, and lifecycle support from prototype to on-site run-of-show. His work spans real-time graphics, projection mapping, sensor-driven interactions, and large-scale physical integrations (LED, motion control, winch arrays), and he has shipped commercial web3 and NFT products as a Technical Product Manager. Based in New York, he pairs an MFA in Design+Technology with a practical penchant for shipping maintainable systems and documentation, and often serves as sole technologist or team lead depending on project needs. Notably, he has a track record of transforming ambitious art/tech concepts into robust, operational exhibits that win industry awards.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Design+Technology, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Design+Technology at Parsons School of Design - The New School
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
opengl10
graphic10
coding9
macos8
linux8
windows8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openframeworks/openFrameworks
Sep 2014 - Feb 2017
openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 16 PRs, 47 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the openFrameworks codebase by implementing and refining functionalities related to graphics and user interaction. They addressed issues in texture drawing, deprecated and replaced the `destroy()` method in `ofFbo` with `clear()`, and fixed multi-line preprocessor directives. They also added new mouse events to `ofMainLoop` and `ofBaseApp` which included providing mouse coordinates.
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mattfelsen/ofxDepthCamera
Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:64 commits, 3 PRs, 47 pushes in 8 months
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