Daniel Flood
Senior Research And Development Engineer at Industrial Light & Magic
Greater Sydney Area Australia
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Top SchoolDaniel Flood is a Senior Research and Development Engineer and Pipeline Lead with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience building production pipelines, tools, and lighting/lookdev workflows for major VFX studios including Industrial Light & Magic and Animal Logic. Currently a PhD candidate in Computer Science, he blends deep academic research into artistic control and emerging tech with hands-on pipeline engineering across Python, C++, Katana, Rez and USD stacks. He has led pipeline teams and taught at the UTS Animal Logic Academy, shaping curricula and bespoke infrastructure (Shotgun Toolkit, Rez, OCIO/ACES) while mentoring students in both creative and technical practice. Equally comfortable shipping robust production tools and iterating on research prototypes, he brings rare fluency between artist workflows and scalable engineering. An early filmmaker and visual artist, Daniel retains a strong practical aesthetic sense that informs technically elegant solutions for animation and VFX.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityCandidate: Doctor of Philosophy PhD, Computer Science, Candidate: Doctor of Philosophy PhD, Computer Science at University of Technology SydneyBachelor of Technology (BTech) - incomplete, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) - incomplete, Computer Science at RMIT University
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Github Skills (46)
python10
animation10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
gpu10
scene10
python-server9
numpy9
pipeline-framework9
pipeline9
autograd9
usd9
neural-network9
api9
tensor9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
UTS-AnimalLogicAcademy/open-source-rez-packages
Jan 2018 - Mar 2021
Scripts to build rez pakages for various open source vfx and animation packages
Contributions:79 commits, 4 PRs, 90 pushes in 3 years 2 months
animation
UTS-AnimalLogicAcademy/tk-core
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
The Shotgun Pipeline Toolkit Core API
Contributions:5 PRs, 23 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
apipipelineshotguncore-apishotgun-pipeline-toolkit
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