SINCE 2022
Robot Yoga
Freelance Software Engineer
- Physical + Digital Worlds
- Sound + Fabrication + Software
- Voice-first, Eyes-free AI
- Real-time 3D & Computational Geometry
Product Engineer · Robot Yoga · ex-Apple
Colin Parsons
Sound, fabrication, and code, fused into interfaces that reach off the screen.
Colin Parsons builds Stray, a voice-first AI, under his own Robot Yoga practice, after working on 3D graphics at Apple. He came to code the long way around — a sound-design degree from Columbia College Chicago, then running fabrication shops where he taught laser cutting and 3D printing and helped launch an open-source CNC router, before Hack Reactor took him into software and roles at Woebot and HOVER. The tell: he once used an HTC Vive controller and rubber bands to make a projected image follow a moving object by hand.
- 2,287GitHub contributions, past year
- 105Private-repo commits, Aug 2026
- 7moSoftware Engineer to Senior at HOVER
- 2011Active on GitHub every year since
HAPPENING NOW
STANDING TODAY
HOW THEY THINK4 BELIEFS
Four convictions explain a career that keeps reaching off the screen.
THE IMPACT
Pull out any one — a CNC kit, a geometry engine, a voice AI.
EVERYTHING ELSE · 4 WORKS
THE TIMELINE
A sound-design degree that took twelve years to circle back to voice.
The whole record, newest first – tap any moment and Aster tells the story.
2022-PRESENT
Going independent to chase voice
In June 2022 Parsons left Apple and reactivated Robot Yoga as a full-time freelance practice, the shell under which he is building Stray, his voice-first AI product. Recent GitHub work — 105 private-repo contributions in August 2026, plus repositories like bay-wheels-mcp — shows the voice-AI and real-time thread continuing.
2019-2021
Sharpening the 3D craft at HOVER and Apple
These were the years Parsons sharpened the real-time-3D craft inside big product teams. He spent 2019–2021 at HOVER turning smartphone photos into measurable 3D house models, was promoted from Software Engineer to Senior in roughly seven months, then joined Apple in February 2021 as a 3D Graphics & Front End Web Developer.
2017-2018
Robot Yoga and code that reaches off the screen
In early 2017 Parsons was teaching creative code at San Francisco's Gray Area and building projection experiments under Robot Yoga — including the HTC Vive rig that made projection follow a moving object, with artist Harvey Moon. By September 2017 he had joined Woebot Health as a mobile engineer on a conversational mental-health agent.
2009-2016
From audio and fabrication to software
Parsons came to code the long way around. A 2011 BA in Audio Design & Production led into years running fabrication shops — teaching laser cutting and 3D printing at the Art Institute of Chicago and helping launch an open-source CNC router at Inventables — before Hack Reactor turned him into a software engineer in 2015.
“Helped launch an open source CNC router kit which shipped to thousands of satisfied hobbyists.”