Mike Kuniavsky
Founder at Sketching in Hardware
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMike Kuniavsky is a founder and interdisciplinary R&D leader with nine years of recent experience building high-performing teams that translate cutting-edge AI, neuroscience, and hardware research into commercially impactful products and services. He has led labs and practices at Accenture and PARC, generating $2B in sales opportunities, 20+ patents, and prototypes presented at CES and the World Economic Forum. Mike combines product strategy, UX research, and hands-on hardware design—from IoT manufacturing to AI-native CAD tools—while advising major industry and academic partners and mentoring future researchers. He founded influential communities and companies, including Sketching in Hardware and ThingM, that lower barriers to electronics design and have shipped hundreds of thousands of units. Less obvious: he repeatedly bridges exploratory science and scaled delivery by building ethical research practices and vertically integrated ecosystems that convert novelty into enterprise-grade offerings. Based in San Francisco, he’s currently focused on AI-native design tools and product strategies for safer, more creative generative systems.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA + BS FilmVideo + Computer Science, BA + BS FilmVideo + Computer Science at University of Michigan
English, Russian, Spanish
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Github contributions (2)
mikek-parc/AAAI-UX-ML
Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
mikek-parc/AAAI-UX-AI
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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