# Zev Izenberg > Artist, software engineer, and rising educator in Brooklyn NYC Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/zevizenberg Artist and Software Engineer at Upsolve. Brooklyn-based, often traveling. Passionate about education and the arts. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Upsolve Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | Brooklyn, New York, United States Upsolve is a nonprofit with the mission to make financial stability accessible to underserved people. We do this through a free online bankruptcy filing tool and a plethora of supporting tools and content. I have: - Analyzed and visualized data to advise on company-direction level initiatives that have resulted in vastly expanding our impact, contributing to $1 Billion of debt discharged. - Designed and launched a tool that enables people to ask the Department of Education to discharge their student loan debts when they file bankruptcy. - More than doubled the completion rate of the bankruptcy filing tool - Redesigned the website - Built 3 new products with different designs, leading to an tool that helps users as they navigate the bankruptcy process ### Software Engineer @ ImmigrationHelp.org Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 - Built apps that helped asylum seekers apply for work permits and helped immigrants get Temporary Protected Status - Revamped the content site's SEO, attracting miliions of yearly visitors. - Redesigned the content site for simplicity and legibility. ### Mentor @ Industrial Design Outreach, Inc. Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Mentor high school students from marginalized communities as they learn about the design process by creating light sculptures. ### Computer Science Tutor @ The Coding School Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 - Tutor underrepresented middle and high schoolers the basics of computer science in Python. - Tailor my lessons to the needs and interests of each student. ### Event Specialist @ Chinese Historical Society of America Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 I helped run CHSA's "Radiating Bruce Lee" film and performance series to accompany the We Are Bruce Lee exhibition at the museum. I engaged visitors with books and items at the Gift Shop and installations to accompany performances. ### Visual Arts Teacher @ Zev's Art Class Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote - Guided an adult student through many different art media, encouraging personal exploration, research, art history, and experimentation. Media included drawing, painting, sculpture, video, and generative art. - On completion of her studies, my student said, "I took virtual art lessons from Zev over the course of some months, during which he provided a well-rounded introduction to drawing, watercolors, and art history. As someone with no prior experience, I didn’t have high hopes for my artistic capacities - however, Zev did an amazing job of tailoring class to my interests and skill level, and by the end of the first lesson I was shocked at how easy he made it to learn. Before I knew it, I was producing art way beyond my expectations. Not only did I gain the ability to make and appreciate visual art, but I also gained a wider perception of beauty as a whole. I’d say I learned to experience the world more deeply by virtue of taking lessons with Zev. Zev is kind, capable, and talented, and I’m very grateful to have learned from him - I highly recommend his teaching and encourage future students to put their all into his lessons." ### Lead Frontend Developer @ Intelus Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area - Technical lead on a frontend team to build an IDE for interactively training AI models. - Collaborated worldwide with multicultural team members based in Egypt and the East and West coasts. - Contributed to UX design by providing sketches and prototypes to leadership and designers. Iterated on designs in collaboration with designers. - Facilitated ethical discussions and how our team's AI can be more inclusive and less biased by science and design. - Architected, built, and optimized an Entity Predictor and Labeller, "one of the most challenging frontend tasks" according to a senior Microsoft engineer. - Redesigned and rebuilt the entire frontend code base with a scalable MVC architecture, new UI system, and Typescript, enabling the product launch just 11 months after I joined. ### Social Media Manager @ Push Projects Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 - Compose biweekly arts and culture newsletters for 2000 readers - Curate social media content - Create engaging instagram Stories featuring collaborative video work ### Brown Outdoor Leadership Training Manager @ Brown University Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Providence, Rhode Island Area - Managed 170+ participant program that trains 40 students to lead 5-day backpacking trips. - Recruited new leaders and participants, planned and ran community events. - Co-led a trip through the White Mountains, incorporating mindful walks, deep conversations, and discussions on privilege and indiginous land. - Took 180 hours of facilitation and safety training, then led 120 hours of training as a manager. - Continued to support the program through COVID by enabling it to run at an overnight camp. - Operated out of Base Camp one year, hiking injured participants out and handling emergencies as they came up ### Director @ STEAMRAVE Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Interactive art nightclub, immersive art experience, video exhibition, and collective art practice that featured video art and high-tech experience design. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable phenomenon from the 60s, it brought in over 500 people to experience something they’d never seen before. I assembled the team, led the collective curation and design process, managed a $750 budget, communicated with venues and ensured safety, organized the 3-person AV Team and 4-person Design Team, and orchestrated our successful launch. The project was featured on local news sites and on Brown University’s social media channels, and is set to become a STEAM tradition. STEAMRAVE was the largest and most broad undertaking of my art career thus far, and I plan to continue directing large-scale art experiences that are relevant to my broader communities. ### Seismology Data Scientist @ Brown Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Providence, Rhode Island Area -Use precision algorithms and write software to pinpoint fault locations using earthquake data in Nicaragua -Create visualizations of the data that are accessible to local population centers. ### Energy and Environmental Sustainability Intern @ Brown University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Providence, RI Implement sustainability initiatives designed to save energy and divert waste to recycling and compost; create visual media to promote these initiatives. ### Brown Outdoor Leadership Training Manager @ Brown University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Providence, Rhode Island Area Organize the food for every outgoing BOLT hiking trip; create visual media for BOLT; construct a skills training program for the end of the Summer . ### Media and Rock @ 95.5 WBRU Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Providence, Rhode Island Area Create visual media for WBRU's website and events; photograph concerts. ### Summer Ambassador @ Brown University Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Providence, Rhode Island Lead tours and information sessions for prospective students. ### Teaching Assistant for Intro to Virtual Reality @ Brown University Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 ### Counselor @ Columbia Association Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Columbia, Maryland ## Education ### Master of Arts - MA in Art Teaching Brooklyn College Jan 2025 – Jan 2028 ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science: Visual Computing Brown University Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zevizenberg - Website: https://zevezev.github.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/zevizenberg JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zevizenberg/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23