Stalgia Grigg
Founding Product Engineer at Fuser
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolStalgia Grigg is a founding product engineer and seasoned software leader with a decade of experience building experimental, accessible web and immersive systems from indie projects to client work for Google, Meta, and Microsoft. Based in Los Angeles, they blend hands-on engineering with pedagogy—having taught university courses on blockchain, generative AI, and led a graduate program—while steering open source projects like p5.js through major refactors that improved WebGL 3D rendering for millions of users. As a former worker-owner principal at Bocoup and senior engineer at Mozilla, Stalgia specializes in accessibility, web platform testing, and migrating large codebases to modern architectures. Their indie work spans live-motion tooling, avatar rigging, and web archiving for institutions including the Getty and Sundance, demonstrating a knack for translating artistic research into robust production systems. Known for a liberatory, experimental philosophy of technology, they combine product instincts with deep technical craft across front-end, WebGL, AR/VR, and ML-infused pipelines. Notably, their open-source contributions balance meticulous bug fixes with systemic library improvements—practical maintenance that keeps creative tooling reliable.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science New Media, Bachelors of Science Computer Science New Media at Purchase College, SUNYUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (4)
graphic10
javascript10
webgl10
html9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
processing/p5.js
Apr 2017 - Sep 2022
p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. http://twitter.com/p5xjs —
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 37 reviews, 393 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Stalgia contributed to the p5.js library by addressing several bugs and implementing improvements across various modules. Their work includes fixing errors in table row handling, cleaning up sections in the image loading and displaying module, and addressing issues in the WebGL module's material handling and image pixel data loading. The user also made various code updates to typography, events, and file handling.
designersprinciplesartclient-sidecanvas
stalgiag/p5.xr
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
a library that helps turn p5.js sketches into immersive experiences using WebXR
Contributions:10 releases, 38 reviews, 375 commits in 4 years
canvasp5-jsthreejsexperiencessketches
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.