Tim Rolls
Self Employed
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Rolls is a hybrid designer-developer with 11 years of professional experience crafting interactive, generative, and immersive experiences that bridge physical and digital worlds. Based in Vancouver, he operates as a freelance artist-designer and has led multidisciplinary teams and projects—from open-source LED platforms (Spore/Lightwork) to public art and branded installations for clients like Lululemon and TED. He pairs system-level design thinking with hands-on skills in XR, machine learning, physical computing, and real-time interaction, and has built maker and teaching ecosystems as a studio technician and educator. Tim is comfortable toggling between creative direction, prototyping, fabrication, and code, often shipping both design assets and software himself. Notably, he has driven funded open-source hardware/software projects that map LEDs with computer vision and wireless control while also developing curriculum and labs to help others adopt emerging tech. His practice blends traditional 3D/design craft with experimental tech to turn ambitious, complex ideas into elegant, playable realities.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Visual Communication Design, Exhibit Design Major, Visual Communication Design, Exhibit Design Major at Grant Macewan University
Github Skills (26)
wifi8
computer-vision6
arduino6
python6
esp82666
esp325
java5
hardware5
gstreamer4
firmware4
iot4
development-environment3
playback3
pde3
keyboard2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
timrolls/Lightwork
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:73 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
ledmappercounter
Supercolony/matthanns
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 11 days
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