Dhruv Kumar
Founder at Livegrid
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDhruv Kumar is a London-based founder and creative technologist with eight years of experience building connected experiences that blend hardware, sensing and expressive design. He founded LiveGrid, a Tamagotchi-inspired digital aquarium that visualises environmental and health data through an artistic IoT display, and has a track record prototyping robust physical installations for studios and institutions. Trained as an architect (BArch) with an MArch from The Bartlett, he brings spatial thinking to interaction design, electronics and embedded software. His background ranges from experiential retail and smart spaces to academic creative-technology roles at UCL, demonstrating an ability to move concepts from sketch to on-site installation. Notably, he combines product intuition with hands-on fabrication skills—writing firmware, integrating sensors and delivering polished in-field systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Architecture, Architecture, Bachelor in Architecture, Architecture at School of Planning and Architecture, New DelhiMaster of Architecture - MArch, Design for Performance and Interactions, Master of Architecture - MArch, Design for Performance and Interactions at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
English, Hindi
Github Skills (41)
dma10
raspberry-pi-gpio10
esp826610
multiplexing10
gpio10
esp3210
wifi10
adafruit9
android-launcher9
chaining9
raspberry-pi9
launcher8
viewmodel8
gfx8
kotlin7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
livegrid/OpenMatrix
Nov 2023 - Jun 2026
Control HUB75 RGB Matrices with just an ESP32
Contributions:6 PRs, 52 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 7 months
esp32
livegrid/livegrid.github.io
Feb 2020 - Dec 2025
website
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 10 months
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