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Steven Schkolne
Founder at MightyMeld
- Coding
- Entrepreneur
- 📍Los Angeles, CA
Steven Schkolne is a computer scientist, designer, and entrepreneur who’s particularly passionate about the way humans work creatively with machines. His current focus is a web project called MightyMeld, a visualization and creation platform for sophisticated React codebases.
A self-taught designer who’s classically trained in computer science, he studied first at Carnegie Mellon and then at Caltech for his PhD. While at Caltech, he built the world’s first creative tools for VR, 15 years before the hardware was commercially available.
He went on to teach software, media, and tech culture at CalArts while exhibiting digital art internationally and at major American museums (LACMA, MOCA). His commercial prints were powered by software he hand-built to make gradients photographic.
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BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Steven Schkolne
Founder at MightyMeld
- 📍Los Angeles, CA
- Coding
- Entrepreneur
Steven Schkolne is a computer scientist, designer, and entrepreneur who’s particularly passionate about the way humans work creatively with machines. His current focus is a web project called MightyMeld, a visualization and creation platform for sophisticated React codebases.
A self-taught designer who’s classically trained in computer science, he studied first at Carnegie Mellon and then at Caltech for his PhD. While at Caltech, he built the world’s first creative tools for VR, 15 years before the hardware was commercially available.
He went on to teach software, media, and tech culture at CalArts while exhibiting digital art internationally and at major American museums (LACMA, MOCA). His commercial prints were powered by software he hand-built to make gradients photographic.
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“South African/American Caltech CS PhD, turned international artist, turned questioner of everything we assume to be true about technology. Also 7 feet tall.”
Timeline
2021
HappyReturns sold to PayPal based on Steven’s architecture
2012
Taught at UCLA
2010
Founded Vain Media
Ask me
| What does the future of front-end development look like? |
| How will AI affect design and development in the React world? |
| How can I get VC funding for a dev tool as a solo engineer? |
| Why did you start a company? |
| What is the future of design systems? |
| From CSS to Tailwind and MUI, there are so many ways to style a site. How do you choose? |
| Why are React and Figma kinda the same thing? |
| Why is it so difficult to be both a designer and a developer? |
