Tom White
Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolTom White is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington with over five decades of experience blending creative coding, research in neural design, and hands-on software engineering. He holds an MS from MIT Media Lab and a BS in Mathematics, and has held senior technical roles at Sony, Oblong Industries, WemoMedia, and Factual where he led engineering and product-focused teams. Tom contributes to open-source AI/creative tools—working on projects like Pixray (image generation) and CLIP-based aphantasia—where his work ranges from full-stack feature development to ML engineering and packaging improvements. He also has practical DevOps and release management experience, ensuring clean versioning and PyPI-ready Python packages. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, he combines academic research with production-grade engineering, often translating experimental neural design ideas into usable software. Colleagues describe him as a bridge between creative practice and robust engineering, comfortable moving from low-level pixel logic to high-level system release workflows.
52 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Media Lab, MS, Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Georgia
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Github Skills (29)
python10
image-processing10
machine-learning10
release-management10
version-control10
pypi10
fuel10
algorithm9
git9
pytorch9
algorithms9
data-pipelines9
implement9
nodejs9
data-pipeline9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pixray/pixray
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 42 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the image generation project, Pixray, by implementing new features and fixing bugs. They introduced a pixel transparency option, including the addition of new parameters and logic for handling transparent images. The user also fixed a merge conflict and made versioning updates. These changes involved modifications to both the main Python script and the pixel drawing code, demonstrating a broad understanding of the project's architecture.
eps696/aphantasia
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
CLIP + FFT/DWT/RGB = text to image/video
Role in this project:ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Tom's contributions focused on modifying the core functionality and dependencies of the project. They added optional support for the `googletrans` library, indicating an interest in text translation features. They also modified the build process by adding a setup file to possibly make the aphantasia package installable, and fixed import issues within the aphantasia/image.py and clip_fft.py files. These changes suggest a focus on improving the project's usability and dependencies related to the core project.
dwttext-to-videocliptext-to-imagefft
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