Tim Thompson
Artful Codger at NoSuch Media
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Thompson is a veteran software engineer and creative technologist with a multi-decade career spanning VLSI and circuit-pack tools, compilers, neural OCR, storage systems, realtime music and graphics, and network protocols. Based in San Jose, he blends deep systems expertise from roles at Bell Labs and NetApp with an experimental practice as a musician and installation artist, building custom realtime audio/video instruments and repurposing controllers in unconventional ways. Known for designing pragmatic software and little languages, he excels at turning complex technical domains into reliable tooling and interactive experiences. Tim’s work marries rigorous engineering with performative art, reflecting both production-grade storage and protocol work and playful, improvisational live systems.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MS, MS at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (19)
palette10
morph10
midi10
midi-controller10
computer-music9
audio9
music8
osc7
frame4
api3
windows2
microsoft2
viewer1
interpreter1
mkdocs1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nosuchtim/morph
Feb 2017 - Aug 2021
TUIO3D server for the Sensel Morph.
Contributions:44 commits, 4 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 years 6 months
morph
nosuchtim/TUIO3D_FingerWorks
Dec 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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