Biomedical engineer & maker — advanced manufacturing, materials, and the computational/data scaffolding around them. PhD from Mount Sinai; ex-CTO; I build the systems behind ambitious technology.
What you'll find here: civic-data visualizations, embedded/hardware experiments, and agentic-coding tinkering — plus the occasional hackathon build.
A few things I'm proud of:
- 🗺️ nyc-housing-values-2026 — Leaflet choropleth of NYC home prices (subway + parks overlays); an experiment in how far a coding agent gets on clean public data from one prompt (and then some follow-ups to dial in UI, haha).
- ⚽ world-cup-2026-dashboard — weather/travel impacts + outcome projections across the continent-spanning 2026 tournament.
- 🔦 light-torch — STM32/ESP32 embedded software turning real-time motion capture into generative light & audio. Powered the WAVES devices on exhibit for SHINE as part of NYCxDesign Week 2026
- 💬 ellipsis — Swift/iOS + Python and BERT/GPT-2 backend; team GRO @ 2019 BCG Digital Ventures hackathon.
Elsewhere: josephborrello.com · Magnitude and Direction · LinkedIn