Resume — Tohm Judson

Profile

Software engineer, composer, and interactive systems developer with experience spanning large-scale web platforms, C++/Unreal Engine, real-time hardware interaction, accessibility architecture, and creative technology. Builds systems that connect software, people, and physical environments—from reusable frontend infrastructure serving millions of users to sensor-driven interactive and VR applications. Comfortable working independently across engineering, design, prototyping, research, and user experience.

Technical Research & Interactive Systems

Drosera Obscura — Sensor-Driven Interactive and VR Systems

2008—Present

Designed and built sensor-driven interactive systems combining Arduino and ESP32 hardware, C++ firmware, real-time networking, and custom software interfaces.
Developed Unreal Engine VR systems in C++ and Blueprints driven by live physical sensor input and event streams.
Built end-to-end prototypes spanning hardware, firmware, networking, interaction design, visualization, and testing.
Presented interactive works at Ars Electronica 2023, SIGGRAPH 2024, Virginia Tech 2025, and McGill University 2026.

Professional Experience

University of Washington Bothell

Frontend Developer

May 2022—Present · Seattle, WA

Own frontend architecture and reusable UI infrastructure across a university web ecosystem spanning more than 7,000 pages and 53 subsites.
Build and maintain React and WordPress component libraries used by more than 100 content editors.
Led a campus-wide accessibility initiative, raising audit scores from approximately 80% to 100% across Lighthouse, Siteimprove, and DubBot.
Integrated automated accessibility and regression testing into CI pipelines.

Microsoft

Software Engineer

May 2018—May 2022 · Redmond, WA

Shipped production software across five enterprise-scale marketing web applications for Dynamics 365, Power BI, and Power Platform.
Designed shared frontend architecture and reusable UI patterns adopted across multiple teams.
Owned accessibility architecture and led a five-engineer remediation effort.
Integrated accessibility validation and regression checks into CI/CD pipelines.

Nimbus 9, Inc.

Frontend Developer

February 2016—June 2017 · Colorado Springs, CO

Developed responsive interfaces for a cloud-based energy-management platform using AngularJS, Angular Material, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and D3.js.
Built monitoring, auditing, visualization, and facility-compliance workflows.

Winston-Salem State University

Associate Professor of Digital Art and Music, Tenured

August 2008—May 2015 · Winston-Salem, NC

Founded and led interdisciplinary courses combining interactive systems, game engines, music, visual art, physical computing, and software development.
Mentored more than 500 students and led academic-program design and accreditation efforts.

Technical Skills

Languages: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3/Sass/Less, C++, C#, TypeScript, Python

Interactive Systems: Unreal Engine, VR, Arduino, embedded systems, sensor integration, real-time networking

Frontend: React, Next.js, Vue, AngularJS, 11ty, Node.js, ASP.NET MVC

Practices: Architecture, CI/CD, testing, performance, accessibility engineering, WCAG 2.2, ARIA

Education

Ph.D., Music Composition
University of Iowa

M.M., Music Composition
University of Florida

B.M., Music Theory and Composition
Appalachian State University