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Travis Mosley

Pipeline Engineer at Nimble Collective

Mid-level Pipeline Engineer / 14 yrs

San Francisco Bay Area

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Editorial and Stereo TD

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

lighting technical director

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

I've been doing frontline production support, software development, and system architecture design for animated feature films and VFX since 2010. I'm currently the lead designer and engineer for an end-to-end production pipeline for the Lytro Immerge VR Camera, where I've lead the design and development of the world's first professional production pipeline using lightfield technology.

My strength is in system architecture and design. I excel at taking disparate products, absorbing user stories, and designing and engineering data pipelines that tie those products together as a viable workflow for the end users. Implementing these pipelines has given me lots of real-world experience in software development in a high-pressure, fast-paced production environment. Pipeline software engineering has been primary in Python, and I have been working professionally as an embedded software engineer and technical consultant for several artist groups in Python-centric pipelines for over 7 years in the animation and VFX industry.

I've spent significant amounts of my own develop doing android development in Java. Troubleshooting and hobbyist pursuits have required me to dive into some C++ or C# code as well. I've also scripted in TCL, Lua and TCSH. I've worked quite a bit with both SQL and NoSQL databases. I also worked for nearly two years doing primarily PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript development.

I really building things, breaking down complex problems and solving them one piece at a time, and coming up with innovate solutions that push workflows and possibilities forward.

Work History

Pipeline Staff Software Engineer

Light Field Lab, Inc.

August 2023 - Present

San Jose, California, United States · On-site

Software engineer focused on artist/creator interaction with light field displays.
Senior Software Engineer, Simulations

Cruise

November 2021 - February 2023
ADG Pipeline Engineer

Lucasfilm

December 2018 - October 2021

San Francisco Bay Area
pipeline engineer

Nimble Collective, Inc

April 2018 - November 2018

Mountain View, CA
Pipeline Technical Director

Lytro

July 2016 - March 2018

Lead end-to-end pipeline architect and engineer for the Lytro Immerge VR Camera pipeline.

* Pipeline architecture and engineering lead for the first ever professional lightfield video pipeline, with emphasis on data management, production tracking, software management and cloud rendering
* Project managing a team of TDs, including developing roadmaps and prioritizing tasks in a fast-paced start up and production environment
* Coordinating technical infrastructure lifecycle with creative, production and IT heads
* Engineering in Python for production pipelines and lightfields. Including:
- Modular Rendering Submission UI
- Utility libraries for abstracting volumetric file paths
- A volumetric editorial library
- Facility logging helpers
- Modular environment configuration components
- Components for capturing review notes and integrating them with Shotgun
Technical Director

Animal Logic

January 2015 - March 2018

Sydney, Australia
Technical Director

DreamWorks Animation

November 2011 - November 2014

Pipeline development and troubleshooting in production.
- Led team to develop and maintain ghost pipeline spanning FX, Surfacing, Crowds, CFX, Animation and Lighting for rendering ghost effects for B.O.O. (2015); Houdini, Nuke and proprietary tool integration
- Crowds/CFX/Lighting handoff – Python development project for validating crowds work, ingesting data into lighting, validating lighting setups, submitting lighting pre-data steps, and a CLUI wizard for aiding artists’ crowds setup. Developed with externally usable modules, configurable, and extensible.
- Render farm data storage, retrieval, visualization and analysis - parsed and stored render data into studio NoSQL storage solution with python modules for easy retrieval. Utility to view render data and graphs interactively in NUKE over final images.
- Miscellaneous development of 2D and 3D workflows for mainly lighting and compositing teams, as well as debugging data from all departments as it impacts final rendered images.
Lighting Technical Assistant

DreamWorks Animation

June 2010 - November 2011

Support lighting artists in setting up sequences and shots, and other lighting support work. Supported:

Megamind: The Button of Doom
Night of the Living Carrots
Madagascar 3

* Sequence setup automation software - reduced lighting sequence setup time from 1-2 days to 1-2 hours.
* Aided lighting leads in setting up sequences, making rig decisions, and managing data flows
Lead Graphic Design Artist / Sys Admin / Web Developer

Ezra Distributing

August 2008 - June 2010

West Lafayette, IN

- Deployed two new web storefronts based on Joomla and VirtueMart with custom skins.
- Organized graphics and development files on centralized server with Subversion access to workstations.
- Managed domain names, web hosting, and online marketing systems for multiple companies.
Undergraduate Researcher

Purdue Envision Center

October 2009 - February 2010

Created assets for an interactive 3D environments in a ‘cave’ VR setup.
Aided in UI testing and design for an interactive ‘clean room’ simulation.
Student Intern

eImagine Technology Group

May 2007 - August 2008

Designing and developing templates and websites with DotNetNuke, designing and creating graphics (flyers, logos, etc) for various clients, and testing web applications.