Willem-jan Van Rootselaar
Animation Developer
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolWillem-jan Van Rootselaar is an Animation Developer with eight years of professional experience blending C# and Python tooling with a decade-long background in animation and rigging for feature films and commercials. He has progressed from hands-on character animation and rigging supervision—building pipelines like Avalon and Shotgun plugins—to backend and pipeline development, contributing to well-known open-source projects such as home-assistant/core where he refactored integrations and improved code quality. Comfortable across the full animation pipeline, he bridges creative and technical teams to deliver performant rigs, automation tools, and production-ready animations. Based in the Randstad, he brings a practical maker’s mindset: shipping creative work as director/animator while steadily deepening software skills for studio-scale pipelines and tooling.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Traditional Animation, BS, Traditional Animation at Academie St. Joost BredaCertificate, Intro to C# Programming and Scripting for Games in Unity, Certificate, Intro to C# Programming and Scripting for Games in Unity at udemyCertificate, Character Rigging/scripting, Certificate, Character Rigging/scripting at Anomalia.euMasterclass, Animals & Creatures, Masterclass, Animals & Creatures at Animation MentorCertificate in Character Animation, Character Animation, Certificate in Character Animation, Character Animation at The Animation Workshop
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (8)
python10
home-automation10
asyncio10
debug9
refactoring9
iot9
mqtt8
mqttnet8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
May 2020 - Jan 2023
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:70 reviews, 12 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Willem-jan primarily contributed to the `home-assistant/core` repository by updating and refactoring the `bsblan` integration, which involves home automation components. Their work included updating the integration to meet current standards, removing unused code, fixing conflicts, and improving code coverage. They also focused on code cleanup, using dataclasses, and fixing various issues like spelling and requirements.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
liudger/release-based-workflow
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
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