Timothy Brooke
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since May 28, 2020
Tim is a creative technologist with a background and experience both in design and engineering. He has developed and designed software and services for diverse clients from banks and museums to industrial manufacturing and agriculture. Putting customers and clients at the center of his projects, the projects have been featured in Wired, The Guardian, The Times, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Click.
Portfolio
Experience
- HTML - 20 years
- JavaScript - 20 years
- Node.js - 15 years
- Arduino - 12 years
- Three.js - 8 years
- React - 6 years
- Python - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Microsoft Word, SourceTree, Jira, Trello, Apple Keynote, Sketch, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, IntelliJ IDEA
The most amazing...
...museum about spying and espionage in New York was created by my team—we created many interactive exhibits to test your mental and physical abilities.
Work Experience
Head of User Experience
The Open Lab
- Conceptualized, designed, prototyped, and user-tested interactive exhibits for the upcoming Expo 2020.
- Led a small team of three UX designers, presented proposals to the client, and translated these development plans.
- Captured design, technical, and user requirements in easily digestible formats for many stakeholders from developers to clients and senior management.
- Set up and maintained agile scrum practices that were eagerly adopted by the team to make our working during lockdown more effective.
Senior Creative Technologist
ProjectsByIf
- Led the IF team to concept, design, test, and develop prototype cloud and mobile apps for trusted and ethical uses of AI & personal data in healthcare, medicine, aviation, and food production.
- Led a project to determine best practices for UI design when incorporating artificial intelligence in mobile devices, prototyping, and documenting these practices.
- Conducted user research in Berlin to understand people's attitudes to incorporating AI assistance into their lifestyles.
Technical Director
Jack Morton
- Oversaw the development of a website for Google conference on artificial intelligence to showcase their AI technology.
- Created a persistent web app that could work even when the conference network was unreliable.
- Designed and developed an algorithm to match users' interests with Google's demos.
Senior Developer
FairFX
- Developed new products and migrated fintech company website and systems from legacy system to AWS microservices, using Node.js and React, and introduced more up to date coding practices.
- Divided and deployed a smooth migration plan from the old Pearl based monolith to new microservices-based architecture.
- Introduced CMS (Prismic) to allow website content to be more effectively updated by non-technical stakeholders.
Experience
Big Bang Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOp9oLQ0HXsSpyscape
https://spyscape.com/Visitors can discover their inner spy with an authentic profiling system, developed with the former head of training at British Intelligence. They can hone their detection skills using interrogation booths, improve their powers of observation in surveillance missions, and test their agility in special ops laser tunnels.
Education
Master of Arts Degree in Interactive Design
Royal College of Art - London, UK
Master of Science Degree in Robotics and Manufacturing Systems
Univeristy of Hull - Hull, UK
Bachelor of Science Degree in Robotics, AI, and Computer Science
University of Reading - Reading, UK
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, Three.js, jQuery, D3.js, OpenGL, WebGL, TensorFlow
Tools
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Jira, IntelliJ IDEA, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Sketch, Apple Keynote, Trello, SourceTree, Microsoft Word
Languages
HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, CSS3, TypeScript, Python
Frameworks
Redux, Next.js, Serverless Framework
Paradigms
Agile
Platforms
Arduino, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Contentful, Docker
Storage
MongoDB, Google Cloud
Other
Styled-components, Storybook, Prismic
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