Location: Takoma Park, MD, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Swift, semantic systems, LLM orchestration
Site/Portfolio: https://www.michaeldouma.com
Email: m5@inotherwords-studio.com
Product and design for complex technical systems. Founded an indie game studio — semantic word games, meanings not spelling. Prior: SpicyNodes (visualization, 40M users), time.gov (1999), a medical AI serving 1.5M patients before AI was cool. Judge for IGF, MagFest, CODiE, GEE, Serious Games.
Looking for: technical products that work but need to engage more, feel less like enterprise Java circa 2003. Game design discipline applied to onboarding, repeated use, cognitive load. Series A–C, 10–50 people. Developer tools, learning platforms, data products.
Looking for: technical products that work but need to engage more, feel less like enterprise Java circa 2003. Game design discipline applied to onboarding, repeated use, cognitive load. Series A–C, 10–50 people. Developer tools, learning platforms, data products.