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Marcello Bastéa-Forte

Designer Engineer at Descript

Marcello Bastéa-Forte has had an extensive career in the tech industry. Marcello began their career in 2002 as the Founder of 2draw.net. In 2006, they joined the Editorial Staff of AMBIDEXTROUS Magazine. From 2007 to 2018, they held a variety of positions, including Computer Science Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at Stanford University, Yahoo! Research Berkeley Summer Intern at Yahoo!, Designer Engineer at Siri, Inc., Designer Engineer at Apple Inc., and Designer Engineer at Viv Labs, where they were the second employee, first frontend engineer and designer, and developed the frontend client and server architecture, developer tools/IDE, and many other things. In 2018, they joined Descript as a Designer Engineer.

Marcello Bastéa-Forte obtained their Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The University of New Mexico between 2001 and 2006. Marcello then went on to earn their Master of Science in Computer Science: Human-Computer Interaction from Stanford University between 2006 and 2008.

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Descript

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Descript builds simple and powerful collaborative tools for new media creators. They strive to eliminate the tedious work that often stands between an idea and its expression, so that creators can focus on developing their craft instead of their usage of tools. Descript is a next generation digital media platform that offers a new "engine"​ that lets you edit audio by editing text (instead of waveforms).