Jeremy Paradie

Jeremy Paradie got his start in making through FIRST Robotics in high school and honed his leadership skills as an Eagle Scout. He earned a Bachelor of Science with an Individual Concentration in Creative Mechatronics at UMass Amherst, where he received the 21st Century Leader Award. During his time there, Jeremy contributed to planning the UMass Amherst Makerspace and managed M5, the Makerspace for Electrical and Computer Engineers, earning the Scanlon Student Employee of the Year Award. He later completed a Master in Design for Emergent Futures, a joint program between the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Elisava School of Design, and Fab Lab Barcelona.

As Maker in Residence, Jeremy is passionate about improving makerspace workflows and expanding equipment capabilities to accommodate a diversity of individual needs. Drawing on his expertise in mechatronics and focus on social impact, he believes that solutions to the challenges of the future lie in the complex interplay between things, especially technology and society—recognizing that deeply intertwined things should not be addressed in isolation.

Jeremy is driven to make better tools for working with such complexity. In his free time, he develops software that serves as the operating infrastructure for a new kind of semantic computing. He also focuses on systems that simplify and automate rapid prototyping processes—making “things that make things that make things.”