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About me
A personal and professional history
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  • JE College Courtyard

    beginnings

    A love of chemistry

    Like Oliver Sacks, my first love was chemistry. As a child I hung out at the Lawrence Hall of Science, collected serpentine crystals in the California hills, and hunted for fossils and geodes in Nevada.

  • JE College Courtyard

    education

    Yale University and The University of Texas at Austin

    At Yale I studied everything I could: art history, literature, classics, philosophy, neurophysiology... Several courses by Heinrich von Staden were influential. I read Ovid and Galen and learned about the interplay between philosophy, technology, and medicine.

  • Methane hydrate decomposition computer simulation

    Teaching

    Member of faculty, Univ. of Texas at Austin

    For six years I taught part-time in the Science, Technology, and Society program. The courses explored the origins of counting, writing, and computing, and introduced the principles of human-computer interaction. Students reinvented Durer's Renaissance-era perspective machine and built Turing machines made of toilet paper, a die, and post-it notes.

  • Stefan Smagula standing in front of the penguins at the Bronx Zoo

    Today

    Product management

    Today I am proud to work as a senior staff product manager at Mozilla, where I am helping to create Tab Groups, Smart Tab Groups, and other productivity improvements for the Firefox browser, used by hundreds of millions of people around the world. For over twenty years I've been developing, managing, defining, designing, and helping teams reach better outcomes at companies like The Economist, Bloomberg, and Google.

  • New
    Adventures