Narendra Kumar Vadapalli

Work History

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  Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Consultant

  Spire Animation Studios, Inc.

  June 2022 - Present

  Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

  - Responsible for designing and developing the pipeline/workflows for managing the VMs/Servers on the Cloud (Coreweave) using IaaC principles at the core
  - Automating the Software installation in the Windows VMs during provisioning using Cloudbase solutions (CloudInit module) and Powershell scripting
  - Developed FullStack web apps that help with the management of Infrastructure on the cloud
  - Designing and Developing the Asset Database on Couchbase DB (Capella) along with the migration of existing data on MySQL server
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  Founder / Director / Principal Consultant

  Skynet Technology Ltd

  July 2021 - Present

  Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

  Boutique Software Maker. Specialized in Software Consulting/Contract services with an expertise in Animation/VFX, Automation, DevOps, Python, Full-Stack Web Development (React/Vue3, TailwindCSS, AWS Amplify. Flask/FastAPI)
  
  TL;DR Have an idea and don't know how to design,build and execute the software for product development, just reach out !

• Consulting Lead Site Reliability Engineer

  Spire Animation Studios

  September 2021 - March 2023

  Vancouver, Canada
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  Software Engineer

  Parallel Domain

  February 2020 - September 2021

  Vancouver, Canada Area
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  Senior Pipeline TD

  Bardel Entertainment

  July 2018 - February 2020

  Vancouver, Canada Area

  Part of the Core Pipeline Team. Responsible for the design decisions of the new pipeline/workflows to support a low end feature/high end episodic animated productions happening at the studio. Also responsible for mentoring the team in terms of best practices in Software Development and making sure that they are executed as per guidelines
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  Chief Pipeline TD

  ON Animation Studios

  October 2017 - June 2018

  Montréal, Canada

  - Leading the Pipeline Team and also supervising the Wrangling team at the Studio
  - Overseeing the Pipeline needs across all the departments in the studio
  - Developing the core pipeline modules for usage across the studio
  - Front end departments (Previz/Layout/Animation) toolchain development
  - Pipeline development from scratch for FX department
  - Pipeline development for Comp and Lighting departments
  - Developed Batch Rendering system using Guerilla Renderer
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  Pipeline Technical Director for Lighting

  Animal Logic

  January 2016 - July 2017

  Sydney, Australia

  

  
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  Department Technical Director for FX

  DreamWorks Animation

  July 2013 - December 2015

  Bengaluru Area, India

  Working as a Department Technical Director for FX for the feature "Penguins of Madagascar". Day to day duties involve the development of Pipeline tools for FX artists. Debugging issues related to Pipeline flow as well as HOUDINI. Knowing the dependencies with immediate departments Lighting and Animation/Character Effects/Crowds.

  

  

  

  

  
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  Department Technical Director for Animation

  DreamWorks Animation

  February 2012 - December 2013

  Bengaluru Area, India

  Working on CG Animation feature films like already announced Mr. Peabody and Sherman as an Animation Technical Director. Typical duties involves Animation pipeline maintenance, upgrading/creating new features in the pipeline, Writing scripts, Helping out artists in debugging on the production issues. Past projects include DreamWorks Dragons Riders of Berk, the TV series for Cartoon Network (Episodes: 2,4,10 and 12)

  
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  Graduate Student in Computer Graphics and Game Technology

  University of Pennsylvania

  September 2010 - December 2011

  Greater Philadelphia Area

  Learned the concepts of Computer Graphics in first semester (Thanks to Dr.Norm Badler and Dr.Stephen Lane). Created scene graphs, Volumetric rendering of clouds, Motion Capture, worked with motion builder. "under the hood" technology in Computer Animtion. Learned to develop 3D models in Maya (Thanks to Scott White). In the second semester I worked on Physically based animation (Jello cube, smoke simulations, Rigid Body SImulations, Thanks to Joe Kider). Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics made me go through a lot and lot of SIGGRAPH papers, which provided insight in to the happenings in the industry. Computer Animation in Fine Arts is a fun way learning about "movement", principles of animation and applying them to a 10 sec-20 sec short films. Final semester was to develop a game from scratch in Unity 3D game engine through a series of small game development tasks along with
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  CG Software Engineer - Summer Intern

  EA Sports

  May 2011 - August 2011

  Orlando, Florida Area

  Internship in Graphics Solutions, Internal Tools and Pipelines for Core Football Graphics Team

• Lead Software Engineer

  Samsung India Software Operations

  September 2007 - July 2010

  Bengaluru Area, India

  Worked in Embedded software team which develops CDMA mobile applications for USA Tier-2 CDMA carriers. Responsible for the development and maintainance of MP3 Player application front end. Performed several IOTs in messaging and browser modules.
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  Software Engineer

  Motorola India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore

  May 2006 - September 2007

  Bengaluru Area, India

  Responsible for the performance and bug fixing of the BREW PEK module. Validation and fixing of all the BREW APIs as per the carrier specific requirements and device data sheet submitted to the Qualcomm.