Woodbury Shortridge
CTO & Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWoodbury Shortridge is a technology leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO of a stealth startup, bringing nine years of experience at the intersection of human-computer interaction, software engineering, and accessibility. Previously he built censorship-circumvention systems at Lantern and led engineering teams at First Turn Media, combining product-focused leadership with hands-on prototyping and development. He has deep research roots in sonification and multi-sensory interface design from roles at Georgia Tech and the Institute for Human Centered Design, and he centers emergent technologies around real user needs, including users with varied abilities. Based in New York, Woodbury pairs a psychology background with HCI training to translate complex task environments into usable, inclusive experiences—a perspective that often surfaces in experimental prototypes and sensory-driven UX work.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Psychology, Bachelor’s Degree Psychology at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHuman Computer Interaction, Human Computer Interaction at Tufts University
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Github Skills (115)
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ios10
react-native10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
getlantern/unbounded
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Interoperable browser-based P2P proxies for censorship circumvention
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 62 pushes in 11 months
woodybury/rn-emoji-picker
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
React ⚛️ Native ☎️ Emoji 😊 Picker ⛏️ | super light weight, dark/light mode, 0 dependencies, 6.45 kB
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 6 months
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