Summary
Thea Rae is a creative technologist in New York with 11 years of experience building interactive web projects, teaching new media, and operating complex instrumentation for scientific research in extreme environments. She blends front-end stacks like React and Node.js with hands-on fabrication and rigging skills, having delivered web work for clients such as Fireworks Labs and Stuntlisting while also teaching aerial and circus arts. Her background spans academia (adjunct roles at Fordham, Hampshire, Smith, and BMCC), freelance product work, and a unique role maintaining sensors and electronics aboard Antarctic research vessels for the USAP. Comfortable translating between designers, engineers, and field technicians, she excels at projects that require both technical craft and physical problem-solving. Unusual among technologists, she pairs software expertise with professional aerial instruction and large-scale build experience, bringing a practical maker’s mindset to digital production.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Art, BA, Art at Smith College
MPS, Art/Technology, MPS, Art/Technology at ITP-NYU
English