Yury Gitman
Adjunct Professor at Parsons The New School For Design
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYury Gitman is a product-focused educator and maker with over a decade leading human-centered toy and consumer product development, from ideation through global distribution. As co-founder of World Famous Electronics, he designed the widely used PulseSensor STEM kit and drove its viral, bottom-up growth with simple project examples and multimedia resources. He blends hands-on electronics and IoT development (including Arduino-based pulse visualizers and sensor-driven LEDs) with strategic product management, having launched 100,000+ units and managed six-figure wholesale accounts. Based in New York, he teaches physical computing, creative coding, and iOS development at Parsons and NYU, continually refreshing curricula to reflect emerging play culture and fabrication tech. Pragmatic and creative, he excels at translating technical prototypes into marketable products that engage learners, makers, and mainstream retail.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, in Science, Technology, & Culture [STAC], Bachelor of Science, in Science, Technology, & Culture [STAC] at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMasters, Interactive Telecommunications Program [ITP], Masters, Interactive Telecommunications Program [ITP] at New York University
Russian, English
Github Skills (8)
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
arduino10
sys10
led-controller9
serial-communication9
iot7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
WorldFamousElectronics/PulseSensor_Amped_Arduino
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
PulseSensor Arduino code for BPM and Processing-Visualizer
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:106 commits, 104 pushes, 15 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Yury primarily focused on modifying the Arduino code for the PulseSensor. Their commits include changes to the core functionality of the sensor, such as updating the URL, reformatting comments, and renaming functions. They introduced a serial monitor visualizer for data output, improving the debugging and user experience. Furthermore, the user enhanced the code to control an LED, indicating a heartbeat, and refactored the loop for clarity.
centervisualizerarduinopostprocessingbpm
WorldFamousElectronics/PulseSensor_Speaker
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 26 pushes in 1 day
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