Andy Baker
Developer at Open Brush
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Baker is a developer with 17 years' experience blending web, 3D and immersive media to build interactive experiences for arts, education and culture from Brighton, UK. As a director and lead developer at Ixxy and contributor to the community-led Open Brush project, he moves between full-stack web work (notably Django tooling) and VR/XR feature development such as glTF import fixes, texture-export improvements and a snip tool for stroke editing. His background spans design-led roles in Flash and Actionscript to modern open-source engineering, giving him a rare mix of creative craft and robust engineering practice. Active with the Icosa Foundation, he helps steward open-source VR tools that extend Google's Tilt Brush legacy, demonstrating both product-minded thinking and hands-on shipping of UX and export features.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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python10
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dotnet-core10
csharp10
unity3d10
gltf9
css9
django-forms9
django-models9
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Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
icosa-foundation/open-brush
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Open Brush is the open source, community led evolution of Tilt Brush! Forked from https://github.com/googlevr/tilt-brush
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:85 reviews, 151 commits, 399 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Andy contributed to the Open Brush project with a focus on enhancing the user interface, fixing bugs, and integrating features. They added a color jitter feature to the UI, addressed issues with glTF file imports, and implemented a snip tool for splitting strokes. Further work included fixing UI-related bugs and improving the export functionality to include textures and experimental brushes. The user also worked on integrating the v1.0 version and updating associated packages.
googlevrartvrvirtual-realitypainting
django-admin-tools/django-admin-tools
May 2014 - Sep 2015
Extends the Django Admin to include a extensible dashboard and navigation menu
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Andy contributed to the Django admin tools project by implementing template inheritance improvements and refactoring the dashboard's structure. They updated the project's documentation, including the README and installation instructions. The user also added Django 1.7 migrations and addressed content type warnings, ensuring compatibility and resolving existing issues within the project. Furthermore, the user addressed the theming CSS integration and improved code readability through indentation.
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