Daniel Heckenberg

Work History

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  Senior Software Engineer - Production R&D

  Netflix

  March 2022 - Present
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  R&D Supervisor - Graphics

  Animal Logic

  October 2018 - February 2022

  Sydney, Australia
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  Technical Advisory Council Chair

  Academy Software Foundation

  September 2018 - September 2020
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  R & D

  Animal Logic

  May 2007 - October 2018

  R & D in animation, visual effects, simulation and artist tools. Development and leadership of systems for interactive and procedural realisation of complex features such as feathers, fur and scales in 3d computer graphics, including modeling, simulation and rendering. Software development for a high performance, fully featured production path tracing renderer.

  

  

• Software Design and Programmer

  UTS / Bystander Project

  August 2004 - July 2005

  Development of a large-scale, interactive new media installation for a team including artists and interaction designers. A custom network-based 3d rendering system was prototyped in Python and finally implemented in C++ using agile development methods in close feedback with the creative team. Video-tracking was used for audience interaction with a responsive dynamics system including a particle system and live database queries on a corpus of historical photographs and textual narratives.

• Design Engineer

  Lake Technology (now part of Dolby)

  November 1998 - March 2002

  Engineering and software development of real-time audio signal processing systems for 3d spatial audio. I was working primarily on a software engine for 3d spatial audio for computer games. Other projects included a wireless augmented audio reality system with location and head tracking, live 2-way audio and real-time 3d spatial audio rendering.