Sands Fish
Senior Experience Designer at BLUE ORIGIN
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSands Fish is a Senior Experience Designer and creative technologist with 14 years blending software engineering, UX, ethnography, and digital fabrication to design human-centered experiences—most recently shaping life and music in space as part of Blue Origin’s Orbital Reef team. With an MIT Media Arts & Sciences master’s and long-term affiliations with the MIT Media Lab and Berkman Center, they translate large-scale data and research into compelling visualizations, prototypes, and exhibition-quality installations. Comfortable as a tech lead and educator, Sands has taught design and interactive media at Parsons and Northeastern while running zero-gravity workshops and hardware/software experiments for the MIT Space Exploration Initiative. Their practice uniquely pairs rigorous computer-science foundations with speculative, empathic research—currently applied to astronaut ethnography and musical instruments for weightless environments.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Media Arts & Sciences, Master's degree, Media Arts & Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyComputer Science, Computer Science at Saint Anselm CollegeBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Assumption College
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Github Skills (57)
open-source10
java10
openframeworks10
open-access10
rest-api10
creative-commons10
asset-management10
dspace10
audio9
twitter8
opengl7
javascript7
ios7
windows7
linux7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mitmedialab/MediaCloud-Discover
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch, 3 issues in 17 days
sandsfish/three_work
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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