Mike Edwards
Founder And Lead Technologist at rich|strange
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Edwards is a founder and lead technologist with 17 years of multidisciplinary experience building interactive systems that span microcontroller firmware to high-traffic web and video platforms. As head of rich|strange he blends design and engineering to deliver bespoke interaction experiences for clients like Ogilvy, Adidas, Samsung and Twitter, using technologies from C++/Cinder and GLSL to React, Node, Go and geospatial backends. His background includes leading video and streaming projects at Twitter and HuffPost, plus hands-on hardware and exhibit work for the American Museum of Natural History, giving him rare fluency across software, hardware, and physical interaction. Trained as an MFA researcher in design and technology, he prototyses rapidly and favors lifelike, playful systems—often producing unexpected work at the intersection of art and engineering. Based in Jersey City, he combines entrepreneurial leadership with deep full‑stack craft and a knack for turning research-driven ideas into production-ready products.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts Design and Technology, Master of Fine Arts Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design - The New SchoolBA Anthropology, BA Anthropology at University of Virginia
English
Github Skills (91)
gist10
image-stitching10
django-rest10
icu10
3d-reconstruction10
precompiler10
geographic9
django9
api9
meshroom9
computer-vision9
brunch9
rest-framework9
geojson9
code-generation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mikeedwards/process-env-brunch
Oct 2012 - Sep 2018
A (crude) precompiler for brunch that replaces tokens with environment variable values.
Contributions:2 releases, 21 commits, 8 PRs in 6 years
tokensprecompilercrudevariablebrunch
mikeedwards/po2json
Sep 2012 - Aug 2021
Contributions:9 releases, 3 reviews, 101 commits in 9 years
translationjavascriptmessage-translationpure-javascriptgreat
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