Romain Maurer

Work History

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  Pipeline Engineering Manager

  Animal Logic

  November 2021 - Present

  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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  Pipeline Technical Lead

  Animal Logic

  December 2019 - November 2021

  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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  Senior Pipeline Engineer

  Animal Logic

  December 2018 - December 2019

  Sydney, Australia

  
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  Pipeline Developer

  Cutting Edge

  March 2016 - November 2018

  Sydney, Australia

  

• R&D Engineer

  The Bakery Animation

  June 2008 - December 2008

  Worked as pipeline engineer on the R&D side. Led development of our own production repository, along with multiple core libraries used in all our applications and commands (command line argument processing, file-system actions, cryptographic tools, mail parsers, frame sequences representation, …). Worked closely with pipeline architect to satisfy production needs as fast as possible.
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  R&D Engineer

  Duboi

  June 2007 - May 2008

  Designed and developed a generic dispatcher (render farm) for HD3D project, a branch of Cap Digital industry cluster. This dispatcher had to solve problems of multiple companies as at least 4 different ones were participating in the debates.

• Developer

  Kynogon

  February 2007 - May 2007

  Improved Kynapse, the path-finding and A.I. SDK, by implementing a faster world data generation application.
  Enhanced SDK integration into Unreal engine. Provided support for American customers.
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  R&D Engineer

  Attitude Studio

  November 2004 - September 2006

  Led rendering pipeline software for Renaissance, the first feature film of the company. Participated in multiple developments for different production teams that require many interactions with users: Renderman shaders for Skyland, Movie encoding, Final Cut Pro files manipulations, EDL and asset manager for different production needs.

• Internship

  CSSI

  2004 - 2004

  The subject of this internship was the development of the software layer for a holographic device.
  As this device was composed of multiple screens in order to have multiple viewpoints, I was in charge of the study and development of a library that intercepts OpenGL calls of softwares and send them on the network so that multiple renderings of the scene can be done, each with a different viewpoint. This application was part of a European project. Thus I wrote all reports (Specifications, State of the Art, ...) in English. I've also participated in the specifications of a collaborative application using the holographic device as the target hardware.