Amit Pitaru
Director, Creative Technology, Creative Lab
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit Pitaru is a seasoned creative-technology leader at Google Creative Lab, directing multidisciplinary teams that fuse AI research with community collaboration to deliver human-centered, impactful solutions. His career spans prototyping leadership at FiftyThree, co-founding Kitchen Table Coders, and teaching roles, all focused on making creativity accessible and expressive. He has steered initiatives like Interview Warmup (EncT5) and the Natural Language Assessment GenAI research area, turning advanced AI into practical tools that matter in people’s lives. An educator and artist, he co-founded The School for Poetic Computation and has taught at NYU, Cooper Union, and SVA, enriching tech with design, critical thinking, and accessibility. Based in New York, he works across senior leadership, researchers, engineers, and communities worldwide to craft strategy and narrative that advance responsible, future-facing technology.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Assistive Technology, Assistive Technology at New York University
Github Skills (25)
openframeworks10
audio8
createjs8
ipad8
linux7
android7
audiokit7
graphics7
computer-vision7
raspberry-pi6
opengl6
windows6
opencv6
ios6
cpp5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apitaru/ofxSmoothLines
Feb 2012 - Jun 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 2 years 4 months
apitaru/Ejecta-HEART-CreateJS
Nov 2012 - May 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
javascriptnodejscreatejs
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