PHYSICIST · ENGINEER · BUILDER · EDUCATOR

I make hard technology usable.

A decade building and teaching across physics, space, immersive reality, robotics, and AI across university labs, small business, and enterprise scale. Now AI Enablement Lead at Zillow and founder of Chaotic Curiosity.

Built across
ZillowBlue OriginNASAArizona State
Don Balanzat
Phoenix, AZ
BY THE NUMBERS
30 → 85%
weekly-active AI use, lifted in two months across Product & Design at Zillow
12,000+
people on the XR/AI platforms I built from zero at Blue Origin
3,000+
students supported per semester running ASU physics labs
7-figure
cost avoidance delivered across Blue Origin vehicle programs

For the benefit of Earth and the diversity of its inhabitants.

AI is powerful enough to change everything. I choose to use it for good.

It is not enough to focus on building alone - we must share what we build with others.

Recent & biggest wins

What I've been doing lately.

The most recent, highest-impact work, from enterprise AI adoption to humanoid robots that learn to move.

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Depth and breadth.

Five technical domains plus a decade of teaching — each its own world of work.

My studio: Chaotic Curiosity

A boutique studio building XR, AI, robotics, and media for museums, universities, startups, and research labs. It's where a lot of this work actually happens.

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My studio: Chaotic Curiosity
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Let's build something.

Open to roles where I help organizations adopt frontier AI safely and well — enablement, customer success, technical program and engineering leadership, and the hands-on building behind them — and to a good conversation about hard problems that matter.