Tom Brewe
Software Engineer at xymatic
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolTom Brewe is a software engineer in Berlin with 13 years of experience building interactive web and native applications using JavaScript, web graphics and SwiftUI. He combines a background in art history and computer science to specialize in experimental interaction design, data visualization, VR/XR and graphics programming, bringing a research-driven approach to prototypes and production features. At xymatic and as a research assistant at Humboldt-Universität he translated design research into working software, and his open-source contributions include material and texture-loading improvements to the widely used A-Frame VR framework. Comfortable across front-end stacks and computer vision pipelines, he often bridges aesthetic goals with technical constraints to create expressive visualizations and simulations.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Art History, Master of Arts - MA, Art History at Freie Universität Berlin
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Github Skills (14)
html10
aframe10
javascript10
virtual-reality10
webvr10
webgl9
threejs9
3d8
augmented-reality8
game-development7
css6
nodejs6
qt6
electron6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
aframevr/aframe
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
:a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 4 PRs, 28 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on enhancing the A-Frame web framework's material component. They implemented an event to signal when textures are loaded, enabling more dynamic interactions with images and videos. The user also made adjustments to the event details and integrated the new event into the example files to demonstrate its functionality. Further, they renamed events and made minor improvements for better code readability and event handling.
unitydaydreamcannonjsvirtualrealityaugmented-reality
nylki/aframe-fit-texture-component
Apr 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:66 commits, 1 PR, 46 pushes in 4 years 2 months
virtual-realityframea-framefittexture
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