Dr Abstract
Founder at ZIM
Canada
Summary
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RockstarDr Abstract is a founder, professor, and two-time Canadian New Media Awards winner with 11 years of hands-on software experience based in Canada. He combines academic insight with entrepreneurial drive—leading ZIM while teaching at Sheridan College—bringing practical product thinking to technical problems. An active front-end engineer, he has contributed meaningful enhancements to the widely used CreateJS/EaselJS library, improving canvas rendering, image transforms, and polygon drawing utilities. His work reflects a focus on performant, user-facing graphics and interaction, often fixing subtle visual and performance issues that improve developer and end-user experience. Notably, he blends invention and instruction: shipping production-quality open-source fixes by day and mentoring the next generation of creators by night.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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16answers
7questions
canvas
top-5%
Github Skills (12)
html5-canvas10
javascript10
graphics-programming10
canvas9
user-interface9
html6
svg6
typescript6
dom6
createjs6
angular6
box2d6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CreateJS/EaselJS
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
The Easel Javascript library provides a full, hierarchical display list, a core interaction model, and helper classes to make working with the HTML5 Canvas element much easier.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Dr primarily contributed to the EaselJS library, enhancing its functionality and addressing specific issues. They added a matrix parameter to the `bitmap()` method, improving image transformations. Additionally, they adjusted the `Polystar` and `MovieClip` classes to fix visual rendering issues and optimize performance, improving the user experience. Finally, the user added new drawing methods for polygons and adjusted stage functionality.
interactionjavascript-libraryanimation8bitcanvas
danzen/zimjs
Nov 2014 - Jan 2023
ZIM JavaScript Canvas Framework - Code Creativity! Interactive Media For All.
Contributions:27 releases, 289 commits, 5 PRs in 8 years 2 months
teachingcanvasjavascriptinteractive-mediajavascript-canvas
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