Michael Betts
Founder at poliw.at
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Betts is a multidisciplinary founder and digital media artist with 12 years of experience building human-centered creative tech, multimedia, and web projects from California. He leads Paleblue.fm, a nonprofit focused on open-source creative technologies that amplify underheard voices, and produces ongoing music and video work under poliw.at. Trained in psychology with a minor in electronic music, he blends creative practice and technical fluency across audio, video, image, and web toolchains (Ableton, Premiere, Git, WordPress, Hugo, HTML/CSS/JS). His background includes hands-on studio work, podcast production for long-form interviews, and building client-facing web applications, showing comfort shifting between creative direction and full-stack implementation. Michael is drawn to passion projects that prioritize social good and accessibility, often combining hardware tinkering (Raspberry Pi, MIDI controllers) with open formats and community-driven releases. Colleagues note his rare mix of artistic sensibility and pragmatic technical skills that turn experimental ideas into tangible media experiences.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at Allan Hancock CollegeUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English, Spanish
Github Skills (18)
react5
javascript5
consensus2
golang2
simple-api2
literate2
markdown1
editor1
reactive1
literate-programming1
sliders1
science1
scalable1
discourse1
database1
Github contributions (5)
MichaelFlops/omari-legacy-site
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:60 commits, 17 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 month
reactfirm
MichaelFlops/metacupcake
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 20 days
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