Roel Kok
Co-Founder & Technical Director at Awwwards
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRoel Kok is a seasoned technologist and co-founder with 11 years of experience shaping inventive web experiences from Amsterdam. As Co-Founder & Technical Director at Baast Studio and an ongoing independent TD, he blends hands-on engineering with creative leadership, previously driving technical work at studios like Resn, Momkai and Firstborn. His background in psychology and industrial design informs a user-first approach to technical direction, marrying aesthetic ambition with robust front-end and server-side implementation. An Awwwards jury member, he’s known for bringing beauty and craft to the web while also enjoying the quieter craft of "pressing keys"—a sign of deep hands-on involvement rather than distance from the code.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Psychology, Bachelor, Psychology at Radboud UniversityIndustrial Design, Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (114)
animation10
kinect10
fiber10
renderer10
depth10
editor9
markdown9
formatter9
feed9
yaml9
react-renderer9
threejs9
react-three-fiber9
3d9
visual-studio9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
roelkok/Kinect-VFX-Graph
Mar 2019 - Nov 2020
Use Kinect's depth feed with Unity's VFX Graph
Contributions:2 releases, 9 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
vfxkinectdepthunityfeed
roelkok/sportsokken
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 months
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