Efe Ozalp

Shipping web systems for 3+ years. Founder of Canvas Engine; two live products maintained for 1.5+ years.

Founder at Canvas Engine (2025-12 – Present)

• Rebuilt a production Canvas2D renderer as a WebGPU-first 2.5D engine with WebGL fallback (alpha).
• Engineered a visual editor that compiles scene notation into GPU render commands.

Full-Stack Engineer, contract at Studio for Interrelated Media (2026-04 – 2026-06)

• Built an internal people-management dashboard replacing Google Sheets workflows for a ~75-person program.
• Consolidated 34 CSS modules into a Tailwind utility system, removing ~3500 lines of code in favor of ~300.
• Extended PostgreSQL schema and Prisma models to support admin/faculty/student roles and grade entries.

Web Developer Assistantship, part-time at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2024-01 – 2024-12)

• Fixed a responsive layout bug in a panorama plugin on massart.edu, the college's public-facing site.
• Developed an interactive React app for the Dynamic Media Institute, now serving as a microfrontend.

Design Intern at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (2024-06 – 2024-08)

• Built a Processing-to-After Effects pipeline for rendering and compositing parametric fireworks.

Web Developer, contract at Kirkland Partners (2023-03 – 2023-08)

• Developed a WordPress site with services, blog, subscription, and contact flows for client use.
• Self-hosted fonts, cutting network overhead by ~300ms; overrode theme with CSS and JavaScript snippets.

MFA in Design, STEM-designated – Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2023-09 – 2025-12)

Cross-registration in MAS.836 Electrical Engineering – MIT

BA in Technology & Studio Arts, Minor in Time-based Art & Electronics – Purdue University (2018-08 – 2022-05)