Paula Te
Member-Owner at Self-employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaula Te is a design technologist and worker-owner based in Seattle with 12 years of cross-disciplinary experience blending interaction design, research, and full‑stack tech consulting. She leads R&D and client work through a worker-owned co-op and independently consults for organizations ranging from Google X to seed-stage fabrication startups, bringing practical product engineering to experimental learning contexts. Her background spans research labs (Y Combinator Research, Dynamicland), academia (MIT, CIID faculty), and creative residencies (San Francisco Opera), giving her a rare fluency in both rigorous research and playful, community-centered making. Comfortable shipping UX/UI and systems-level prototypes, she’s equally focused on teaching and cultivating collaborative ecosystems that scale learning, not just products. An inclination toward tangible computing and pedagogy subtly shapes her approach, turning technical prototypes into tools that teach and connect communities.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInteraction Design, Interaction Design at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
Github Skills (32)
chrome-extension9
badger9
fingerprinting9
webextension9
screensharing8
browser-extension7
javascript7
video-chat7
chrome7
mind-ar6
audio6
chat6
firefox6
privacy6
webrtc6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
paulate/tadcad
Sep 2014 - Sep 2020
Contributions:64 commits, 3 pushes in 6 years 1 month
paulate/exercise-app
May 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
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