Bei Yang
Director Of Engineering, Avatar Platform
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBei Yang is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience building real-time graphics, avatar systems, and cloud-enabled pipelines across entertainment and consumer XR products. Currently Director of Engineering for Meta’s Avatar Platform, she drives GenAI asset generation, cross-device SDKs, and R&D productization after leading core XR graphics and cloud rendering efforts. Her career at Walt Disney Imagineering fused creative technology, large-scale pipeline modernization, and attraction-grade real-time systems, bridging research, production, and partner integration with ILM/Lucasfilm. A hands-on engineer early in her career, she contributed to the Panda3D open-source game engine—improving cross-platform builds and multithreading—bringing practical build- and performance-focused expertise to leadership. Based in Los Angeles and grounded in Carnegie Mellon training in entertainment technology and HCI, she excels at turning advanced graphics research into product-ready platforms. Colleagues describe her as a strategist who still dives into build systems and rendering edge cases when it matters.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Entertainment Technology, Master of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (14)
windows10
64-bit10
c-language10
cross-platform10
cpp10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
game-engine10
multiplatform10
cplus10
python10
build-automation10
game-dev10
opengl9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
panda3d/panda3d
Apr 2009 - Aug 2010
Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Bei's contributions primarily involved enhancing the build process and cross-platform compatibility of the Panda3D game engine. They added support for 64-bit Windows, incorporated intrinsics for CPU operations, and modified the build system (makepanda.py) to handle different architectures and third-party libraries. Further contributions addressed the build process to include /bigobj and other VS flags for successful compilation and incorporated the Awesomium library. They also fixed issues related to pointer textures and multi-threading.
cppgame-enginepythonpanda3dcross-platform
beiyang/AmbientRSS
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 months
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