Michael Palumbo
Instructor at Exit Points
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Palumbo is an interdisciplinary technologist, educator, and artist who builds experimental musical instruments, web audio tools, and community platforms that foreground improvisation and shared authorship. With a PhD in Digital Media from York University and a decade of practice, he blends creative coding, modular synthesis, and distributed systems to prototype interfaces like Forking Paths and multi-user VR music apps. He teaches advanced sound design and creative computation while founding and running Exit Points, a concert series and label that has produced over 60 concerts and 20+ releases to amplify marginalized improvisers. Equally comfortable refactoring C++/Node projects and shipping web-audio deliverables, he pairs rigorous research with hands-on production and mentorship. Notably, his work focuses on sustainability for artists—building tools and training that make high-quality, community-led performance and production repeatable and scalable.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Concordia UniversityDiploma Entertainment Business Management, Diploma Entertainment Business Management at Toronto Film SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Digital Media, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Digital Media at York UniversityCertificate Full-Stack Software Development, Certificate Full-Stack Software Development at University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies Boot Camps
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Github Skills (172)
synthesis10
modular10
music10
cytoscapejs10
blockchain-network10
wallet9
sound-effects9
miner9
blockchain9
web-audio-api9
peer9
visual-analytics9
concurrently9
version-control9
coding9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
michaelpalumbo/allhands
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:31 releases, 245 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 6 months
worldmaking/vr-in-vr
Nov 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:268 commits, 49 pushes, 2 comments in 11 months
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