Kwesi Davis

Kwesi Davis

Lead Pipeline Engineer / 19 yrs

United States

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Work History
  • Tech Lead

    DreamWorks Animation

    August 2004 - July 2019
    Glendale, CA

    ✚Team lead on Arc (asset management) project. A Google Polymer (JavaScript) web app with custom web components & Redux data model.
    ✚Architect of Crafty (DreamWorks' next generation asset graph templating) microservice. This stateless RESTful API was built with Python Flask, deployed on OpenShift and relied on a MongoDB backend.
    ✚Integrated Premo (proprietary animation package) into the studio pipeline. Implemented RPC proxy object to access Premo functionality from Python scripts. Primary development and support for Action Flow (node execution framework); which included a PyQt-based graph editor.

  • Tools Engineer

    RhinoFX

    2004 - 2004
  • Tools Engineer

    Turbine Entertainment Software

    1999 - 2001
Education
  • MFA (Film & TV)

    New York University

    September 2001 - May 2004
  • Electrical Engineering

    Brown University

    September 1994 - May 1998