Tim Holman
Senior VP UI UX Engineering at Goldman Sachs
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTim Holman is a Senior VP of UI/UX Engineering with 15 years building fast, polished front-end experiences for companies from startups to Goldman Sachs. He blends interaction design sensibilities with hands-on engineering, shipping production React/Redux systems, minimalist tools like ZenPen, and playful open-source projects (e.g., elevator.js and cursor-effects) that showcase his knack for delightful micro-interactions. A proven leader who has scaled teams and product engineering at BDG and CodePen, he focuses on predictable UX, performance, and developer happiness. Based in New York, his background in games and interactive entertainment informs a tactile approach to web interfaces and a curiosity for tinkering that surfaces in both demos and production-grade systems.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Games & Interactive Entertainment, Bachelor’s Degree Games & Interactive Entertainment at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
twitter-bootstrap10
canvas10
css10
responsive-design10
user-interface10
ui-design10
io10
uid10
svg10
front-end-development10
html10
frontend10
mysql9
animation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tholman/cursor-effects
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
Old-school cursor effects for your browser built with modern JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 107 commits, 28 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the front-end development of a collection of 90's cursor effects. Their work involved the creation and integration of various JavaScript-based cursor animations, including "fairyDustCursor," "emojiCursor," "bubbleCursor," and others. The commits demonstrate a focus on implementing visual enhancements to the user interface, providing a nostalgic and interactive experience within a web browser. The user also added support for touch interactions.
old-schoolbrowsercursor-effectscanvasjavascript
tholman/zenpen
Jan 2013 - Jan 2020
A minimalist writing zone.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:130 commits, 22 PRs, 34 pushes in 7 years
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on improving the user interface of the minimalist writing application. Their commits involve updating UI links, implementing Firefox fixes, making changes to the home page text, and fixing bugs related to the word counter. They also added the functionality to set the caret position when pressing enter in the header and styled the UI bubble for a cleaner look. Furthermore, the user made improvements on the UI bubble to prevent it from moving when adjusting bold/italics, and added link implementation and print styling.
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