Gyedo Jeon
Senior Technical Director at DreamWorks Animation
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGyedo Jeon is a Lead Technical Director with 19 years of experience leading full-stack and engine-level development, currently driving technical direction at DreamWorks Animation in the Los Angeles area. He blends hands-on engineering with leadership, shipping robust tools and pipelines for production animation while mentoring cross-disciplinary teams. A longtime contributor to the mature Panda3D game engine, he has improved scene graph selection, camera-distance widget scaling, and fixed complex initialization and camera-control bugs—work that reflects a focus on practical usability and stable runtime behavior. Trained in engineering at Yonsei University, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a user-centered approach to tool design, often tackling subtle edge cases that improve reliability in large-scale graphics and animation workflows.
19 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at Yonsei University
Github Skills (9)
panda3d10
c-language10
cross-platform10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
game-engine10
python10
game-dev10
opengl9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
panda3d/panda3d
Jun 2007 - Mar 2011
Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Game Engine Contributor
Back-end Developer & Game Engine ContributorContributions:252 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gyedo primarily contributed to the Panda3D game engine by adding new features and addressing existing issues. They added features like 1D scaling, scene graph selection updates and camera distance-based widget scaling. The user also fixed bugs related to initialization errors, task list selection and object movement in various scenarios including Maya camera control mode. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the engine's functionality and user experience.
cppgame-enginepythonpanda3dcross-platform
gyedo/gyedo.github.io
Oct 2020 - Jun 2026
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
Contributions:14 PRs, 81 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 8 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
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