Matthew Fargo
Senior Creative Technologist
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolMatthew Fargo is a Senior Creative Technologist with 12 years of experience building full-stack, cross-platform products and interactive experiences, currently at Apple in Tokyo's Chiyoda ward. He blends low-level graphics and systems expertise (Swift, Metal, Objective-C, C/C++, OpenGL) with server-side and ML/NLP skills (Node.js, Python), enabling end-to-end delivery from GPU shaders to conversational models. His background includes founding a startup (Ekibo) and leading technical teams at agencies and studios, giving him both entrepreneurial and client-facing product instincts. Trained originally in English and Japanese literature and refined through graduate study in interactive design and telecommunications, he often bridges technical craft with narrative and cultural context—useful for localization and human-centered AR/interactive work.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Japanese Literature, PhD, Japanese Literature at University of California, BerkeleyMPS, Interactive Design, MPS, Interactive Design at New York UniversityBA, English, Japanese Literature, BA, English, Japanese Literature at Willamette University
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (23)
openframeworks10
shader9
kuromoji9
kana9
romaji9
addon9
kanji8
mecab8
katakana8
blender6
exporter6
sentence6
converting6
clipper3
polygon2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mfargo/ofxFilterLibrary
Jun 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:84 commits, 8 pushes, 3 comments in 9 months
filtersshadersopenframeworks-addonopenframeworksaddon
mfargo/tnz_api
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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